Re: Any hints for bootstrapping in Solaris 10?

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 31 Oct 2020, Jonathan Perkin wrote:

> * On 2020-10-31 at 20:11 GMT, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
>
> > Your suggestions had me retry as root, and didn't get me anywhere
> > either. So I'm trying all the different things people suggest. You're
> > replying to problems I'm having with things other people suggest, things
> > you didn't have to do. But I can't get your way working either.
>
> I didn't mean to come across like that, the point is that pkgsrc
> should just work, and if it doesn't, then we should investigate why,
> and fix it.
>
> Applying a scattergun approach where things are bodged until they work
> is usually very counter-productive, you end up running into unrelated
> problems that are difficult to diagnose, and even if things somehow
> end up working it doesn't help the next person who comes along and
> tries to do the same things.
>
> I'm much more interested in stopping at the very first sign of
> problems, digging into them and identifying exactly what is wrong, and
> fixing that, instead of going off into the weeds.  You shouldn't need
> to care about shells, or LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or any other random
> settings.  You should be able to just bootstrap and go, and if you
> can't, then that's on us, not you, but we need help to identify the
> problems correctly.
>
> I'm still happy to spend time diagnosing this with you, but if you
> don't want to that's fine.

I just keep getting different suggestions, so I'm trying them all out.
I'd like to follow one path, but some of them have very little logging
and so it's hard to progress (like building packages after bootstrapping
finishes).

In addition, it's been years since I used Solaris and it's as
infuriating as trying to go back to a 10-year-old Linux distro.
Everything is sort of the same, but not really.

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