Re: [Bug-wget] Wget 1.20.3 on Solaris

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 11:34 AM Jeffrey Walton <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 9:13 AM Tim Rühsen <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > On 5/2/19 2:15 PM, Darshit Shah wrote:
> > > That is a terrible suggestion. Please don't do that or suggest it.
> > > I'm sure Jeffrey here is capable of knowing what this is and what the
> > > implications of such a binary are.
> >
> > I wouldn't call it 'terrible', but it's definitely not a good idea for
> > multi-user production environments :-)
> >
> > It demonstrates the principle for a system where absolutely nothing else
> > uses python3 - that's what Jeff was claiming. And so nothing breaks.
> > It is even not easily possible (or just unwanted !?) to install python3;
> > if it was easy, Jeff wouldn't have posted the question, I guess.
>
> Yeah, so this is Solaris. Oracle dismantled the packages system to get
> folks to upgrade or buy a support contract. I can't even run 'pkg
> update' without errors because Oracle deleted their signing keys.
>
> I did try to build Python from sources about a year ago. I had some
> had trouble (but don't recall what it was). Then I learned Solaris
> wasn't really a supported platform for Python. They were not really
> interested in testing the platform and fixing the problems.

By the way I did try to install Python3. And here's what it looks like
trying to run update:

$ sudo pkg update
Creating Plan (Package planning:  1/10): /
pkg update: Chain was rooted in an untrusted self-signed certificate.
The package involved is pkg://solaris/consolidation/ddt/address@hidden
8.7.13,0.5.11-11.4.0.0.1.11.0:20180718T212443Z

Oracle deleted their keys and removed access to their 11.3 repos.

At this point about all I can do is make the best of things and truck on.

Jeff