307784 - Tar file doesn't include Solaris installation instructions.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Marc Robinson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Problem is with tar file: mozilla1.7.11-sparc-sun-solaris2.10-gtk2+xft.tar

I downloaded and bunzip2ed the file, getting the tar file.
Then I used tar tvf *.tar mozilla/README.txt to get the README.
The README only refers to installation for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Since the build is for Solaris Sparc, I lack the needed instructions.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download.
2. Use bunzip2.
3. Extract the README.txt.
4. Search for "Solaris" or "Sun. Doesn't exist in the file.

Actual Results:  
Because I lacked the installation instructions, I stopped. While I probably 
could have adapted the Linux instructions, I'm reluctant to do so on my sole 
Sun machine, since it's a production box that runs our workforce management 
software. I'd rather see instructions specific to Solaris. I need Mozilla 
because a third-party package requires it, but am concerned that a build with a 
problem like this might have other problems as well, and don't want to go ahead 
until the tarball contents look right.

Expected Results:  
The README.txt for a Sparc Solaris tarball should include instructions for 
installing on the gear for which it was built.

Here's the version I downloaded:
mozilla1.7.11-sparc-sun-solaris2.10-gtk2+xft.tar
(except that it was zipped; the name ended with ".bz2").

Comment 1

[Marc Robinson]

Well, I suppose I've found the problem with open-source software: no support if 
the problem isn't glamorous enough to be interesting. I opened this bug 17 days 
ago and it's still waiting for triage.

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

I'm not sure what you were expecting... the linux instructions should work fine
for Solaris.  There's also a readme file on the ftp site with the tarball:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.7.11/contrib/mozilla1.7.11-i386-pc-solaris2.10-gtk2+xft.readme

and the fact that it's in contrib means that it's not an official release from
.mozilla.org and you should look to the contributor for support (which the
readme says is [e-mail]).

resolving INVALID