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<p>River Tarnell wrote:</p>
<p>> Since no major issues have been raised regarding the conversion of</p>
<p>> > nightshade to Solaris, this has been schedule for the maintenance </p>
<p>> window on January 3rd, 2011. For more information, see </p>
<p></p>
<p>I have reported *) a few incompatibilities in very basic tools and bash</p>
<p>that I have not the faintest idea of how to get around them under Solaris.</p>
<p>Yes, these may be bugs in the Solaris tools or O/S, and some of my scripts</p>
<p>will not run without them fixed. My only option atm is moving them elsewhere</p>
<p>outside the toolserver cluster, when there will be no Linux host left.</p>
<p></p>
<p>I shall re-evaluate the scripts under Solaris during the next days, just in case, something has been altered meanwhile, and report remaining issues</p>
<p>more detailed.</p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p>*) Wanting to link to my earlier e-mail in the list archive, I could not</p>
<p>find it :-( Here is a copy:</p>
<p></p>
<p>On Thursday, 16. September 2010 04:02:35 Purodha wrote:</p>
<p>> > ... we have </p>
<p>> > decided to standardise on Solaris for the login and web servers. We will</p>
<p>> > therefore be converting nightshade from Linux to Solaris at some point in</p>
<p>> > the future.</p>
<p>> ></p>
<p>> > There is no fixed time frame for this at moment, but it won't happen</p>
<p>> > sooner than a month from now, and we won't do anything until we are</p>
<p>> > satisfied that all tools (and users) are ready for the migration.</p>
<p>> ></p>
<p>> >To start with, we want to identify and fix any issues which prevent users</p>
<p>> > from moving their tools to Solaris. This will mainly include:</p>
<p>> ></p>
<p>> > * Software which needs to be installed or updated</p>
<p>> > * Behaviour differences between Linux and Solaris where the Linux</p>
<p>> > behaviour is more correct or preferable.</p>
<p>></p>
<p>> I have several shell scripts (using bash, awk, sed, grep, cut, php,</p>
<p>> pywikipedia) that run with Linux only.</p>
<p>></p>
<p>> I have tried to make them work on Solaris, too, while we had an idle</p>
<p>> machine, but it was impossible. I cannot quite remember what the</p>
<p>> precise causes were, but there were several incompatibiliities</p>
<p>> prohibiting one staight script for both systems without branching inside</p>
<p>> the script as per system, and at least one issue that prohibited a solaris</p>
<p>> version entirely - something in the realm of awk features, regexp's or</p>
<p>> shell escapes.</p>
<p>></p>
<p>> Unfortunately, it will take time before I shall have the problems spotted</p>
<p>> again. I might need help, then.</p>
<p>> Since I had been unable to fix them in the first ~135 tries I expect to</p>
<p>> fail on the ~136-th one as well.</p>
<p>></p>
<p>></p>
<p>> Unrelated,more general question:</p>
<p>></p>
<p>> Why would we give up the flexibility of having a choice of operating</p>
<p>> systems to log in to?</p>
<p>></p>
<p>> Geetings - Purodha</p>
<p></p>
<p>Greetings - Purodha</p>
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