# [OmniOS-discuss] [discuss] pkgsrc-2013Q2 binary packages for illumos now available

Jim Klimov jimklimov at cos.ru
Sat Aug 3 07:44:50 UTC 2013

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    On 2013-08-03 09:29, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
    > No, it would be more correct to have a real /usr/bin/od command on the
    > system, even if it's just a symlink to /usr/gnu/bin/od - not having one
    > is just asking to break scripts.  I'm not going to take a long convoluted
    > hack upstream at X.Org to work around such incompatible behavior for one
    > distro.

    I see, thanks for the reply.

    Well, *if* OmniOS indeed (again, I did not yet try it in practice)
    does not provide even a symlink at "standard" Solarisish locations,
    especially if it provides the binary anyway, this is the problem to
    fix. However I might envision a scenario like what happened with
    OpenSolaris and later OI, where the GNU userland got priority in
    default PATHs and sometimes was incompatible with Solaris equivalent
    commands in either command-line switches or parsable output, which
    could make interactive admins' life uneasy and old scripts - broken.

    Though for exactly that particular case, just fixing the PATH back
    helped ;) in cases similar to that, the hacks like mine might help...

    //Jim

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