All: I wanted to give everyone a heads up on Belenix related activities.
Context: We'd decided some time ago to use rpm5 + the smart package manager. Please see: http://www.belenix.org/content/Proposal-use-rpm5-package-format-and-smart-package-manager All of my work is tested on only my laptop so far, albeit in a number of clean boot environments. -- Ram ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sriram Narayanan <sri...@belenix.org> Date: Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 10:09 PM Subject: Re: An initial cut of the Belenix Roadmap for a four to six week duration. To: Belenix Developers <belenix-...@opensolaris.org>, Belenix Discuss <belenix-disc...@opensolaris.org> Here's the install log sriram@ram-oi:~$ sudo pkg install rpm5 Packages to install: 1 Create boot environment: No DOWNLOAD PKGS FILES XFER (MB) Completed 1/1 67/67 1.5/1.5 PHASE ACTIONS Install Phase 78/78 PHASE ITEMS Package State Update Phase 1/1 Image State Update Phase 2/2 sriram@ram-oi:~$ rpm --version rpm (RPM) 5.3.11 sriram@ram-oi:~$ rpmbuild --version rpmbuild (RPM) 5.3.11 -- Sriram On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Sriram Narayanan <sri...@belenix.org> wrote: > I wanted to give a status on this work: > > Completed: > - tar.bz2 files for rpm5, smart and createrepo. > - an IPS repo containing rpm5. > > These are on my computer, and I've tested these on clean boot > environments and everything works well. > I've tested a build of nginx across boot environments, and all's well > on that front. > > What's next: > - rpm dev tools - I intend to have a look at what Fedora publishes, > and see which of these we should take. > - Publish an IPS repo at ips.belenix.org to contain rpm5 > - Publish an RPM repo at belenix.org to contain smart and createrepo > > For the belenix.org work, I'll need access from Moinak/Angad. I expect > that the tar.bz2 files would get uploaded only by Tuesday night India > time. > > I also tried to build smartos, but am facing some errors. I think that > providing rpm5 + smart on SmartOS would be useful to have, and could > become the foundation of "Belenix - Data Centre Edition" (or something > like that). > > -- Sriram > > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Sriram Narayanan <sri...@belenix.org> wrote: >> Hi everyone: >> >> A colleague at work is interested in contributing to Belenix and asked >> me about the roadmap. I'd taken a decision to not give this thought >> until I had a working rpm tarball, but his question makde me think and >> jot down my thoughts on a four to six week roadmap for Belenix. >> >> Please review. >> >> ===================================================================================== >> rpm5 PoC - completed >> smart GUI PoC - completed >> Smart Command Line - Testing/Fixes needed - uninstall complains about >> config being in "read-only" mode >> rpm5 tarball - work in progress >> smart tarball >> >> IPS Repository >> - Publish RPM >> - Publish Smart >> >> RPM Repository >> - Publish RPM >> - Publish Smart >> - Publish RPM Dev Tools >> >> Getting Started Wiki >> >> Fedora RPM Development Guide >> - Port to Belenix >> >> Illumos latest >> - TarBall >> - RPM >> - IPS >> - Zones Howto >> >> Getting Started >> - wiki >> - access >> - Coming from Linux/Windows 7 >> - Multiboot/grub >> - Packaging Howto >> -- Getting started with rpm5 on Belenix >> --- Installing rpm + smart (IPS/tarball) >> --- Setting up your build env (rpmdev tools + samples) >> - Repository Management >> - Package Signing >> >> -- Sriram >> Belenix: www.belenix.org >> > > > > -- > Belenix: www.belenix.org > -- Belenix: www.belenix.org _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
