Removing SVR4_PKGNAME?

[Thomas Klausner]

Hi!

In the past, SVR4_PKGNAME was a short name of five characters max,
used on old Solaris versions so that packages compatible with their
packaging tools could be created.

I haven't seen anyone talking about or adding these alternate names to
packages for a very long time, so I wonder if it's time to remove
them.

Comments welcome!
Thomas

[Aleksej Saushev]

Hello,

Post by Thomas Klausner
In the past, SVR4_PKGNAME was a short name of five characters max,
used on old Solaris versions so that packages compatible with their
packaging tools could be created.
I haven't seen anyone talking about or adding these alternate names to
packages for a very long time, so I wonder if it's time to remove
them.

Yes, please.

[David Holland]

Post by Thomas Klausner
In the past, SVR4_PKGNAME was a short name of five characters max,
used on old Solaris versions so that packages compatible with their
packaging tools could be created.
I haven't seen anyone talking about or adding these alternate names to
packages for a very long time, so I wonder if it's time to remove
them.

Yes, please...

[Thomas Klausner]

Post by Thomas Klausner
In the past, SVR4_PKGNAME was a short name of five characters max,
used on old Solaris versions so that packages compatible with their
packaging tools could be created.
I haven't seen anyone talking about or adding these alternate names to
packages for a very long time, so I wonder if it's time to remove
them.

Since there was no disagreement on this point, I've now removed this
variable from pkgsrc.

Related: Is pkgtools/gensolpkg still useful nowadays?
Thomas

[Jonathan Perkin]

Post by Thomas Klausner

Post by Thomas Klausner
In the past, SVR4_PKGNAME was a short name of five characters max,
used on old Solaris versions so that packages compatible with their
packaging tools could be created.
I haven't seen anyone talking about or adding these alternate names to
packages for a very long time, so I wonder if it's time to remove
them.

Since there was no disagreement on this point, I've now removed this
variable from pkgsrc.
Related: Is pkgtools/gensolpkg still useful nowadays?

agc@ should have the final say, but I presume not, and if there is any
interest in SVR4 packages from pkgsrc then I'd rather see a pkgformat
backend developed.