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Bug #12337

remove legacy ABI switches from SVR4 packaging

Added by Peter Tribble 6 months ago.

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New
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Peter Tribble
Category:
cmd - userland programs
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Description

SVR4 packaging has a number of ways to toggle ABI compliance (or non-compliance), for legacy packages (for non-compliant packages prior to Solaris 2.4).

These are toggled by setting the following in the environment:

NONABI_SCRIPTS
PKG_NONABI_SYMLINKS

No current packages should be requiring these non-compliance workarounds; most of the legacy packages finally failed when Solaris 10 was released in any case.

There's also

PKG_ABI_NAMELENGTH

which would enforce the old 9-character limit for package names; this is completely useless in the modern world.

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