Re: Installing Solaris 8 Apps on Solaris 10

From: Rich Teer (rich.teer_at_rite-group.com)
Date: 04/03/05

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    Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 23:06:54 GMT

    On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Charles McCane wrote:

    > Does anyone know how to fool apps into thinking they are installing on a
    > Solaris 8 system when actually running on Solaris 10? I'm trying to
    > install OpenView 6.4.1 and getting tired of trying to hack the install
    > script.

    Thats really the only way*. Apps shouldn't care what version of the OS
    they're installing on (apart from somr minimum supported version),
    unless they mess with the kernel or undocumented interfaces (in the latter
    case, they are arguably broken).

    * I guess you could write your own version of uname that returns whatever
    you want... 

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