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

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Sat Aug 3 07:29:55 UTC 2013

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    On 08/ 2/13 11:55 PM, Jim Klimov wrote:
    > Hello Jonathan,
    >
    >    I was reading through your release notes (blog entry) here:
    > http://www.perkin.org.uk/posts/whats-new-in-pkgsrc-2013Q2.html
    > and stumbled upon this bit of information:
    >
    >    : Also on OmniOS 'od' is located in a different location
    >    $ sed -i -e 's,/usr/bin/od,/usr/gnu/bin/od,' /opt/local/bin/startx
    >
    >    I believe (didn't try yet) that /opt/local/bin/startx is a script;

    It is.

    > wouldn't it be more correct to have it handle setting the proper
    > environment - either as force-prepending its PATH defaults (and
    > not using full paths to commands), or perhaps defining variables
    > for the full paths to binaries?

    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.

    On the other hand, just before seeing this mail I'd sent a patch off
    for code review upstream at X.Org that will prefer the openssl command
    over /bin/od /dev/urandom... on Solarish platforms anyway:

    http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/14235/

    so the problem may get solved as a side effect of that.

    --
    	-Alan Coopersmith-              alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
    	 Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc

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