[OmniOS-discuss] Fwd: omnios-b281e50: No solution was found to satisfy constraints

[Eric Sproul]

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From: Eric Sproul <esproul at omniti.com>
Date: Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] omnios-b281e50: No solution was found to
satisfy constraints
To: Ben Summers <ben at fluffy.co.uk>


On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Ben Summers <ben at fluffy.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 3 Feb 2014, at 16:16, Eric Sproul <esproul at omniti.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm going to surmise that it is php-54.  More recent builds in
>> ms.omniti.com began incorporating on the 'entire' package of the
>> version they were built on, because we could not know whether they
>> would work properly on future versions of the OS.
>
> The expectation of someone from the Solaris world is that if it works now, it'll work on any future version of the OS.
>
> Should OmniOS users expect this to be the case, or should we recompile for new versions of the OS?

That's only for libc ABI.  Those promises do not extend to userland
libraries, which is where we would most likely expect breakage for
high-level apps.

Eric