Hi, > On Oct 13, 2016, at 6:33 AM, Andreas Wacknitz <a.wackn...@gmx.de> wrote: > > Am 12.10.16 um 22:24 schrieb Adam Števko: >> Hi, >> >> >>> I would like to see is >>> 1. A page about build environment preparation, especially what packages >>> are needed (and how to install them) to build all userland packages >>> Some words when you are trying to build in a zone. A downloadable >>> script would be nice… >> https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Building+with+oi-userland >> <https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Building+with+oi-userland> - this is the >> most up to date documentation how to get starting with oi-userland. It’s >> pretty much hidden as hipster content is not the first thing people will >> find. We need to fix this and mark/remove old content once and for all. >> However, wiki reorganization is more complex task and is out of scope of >> this email. >> >> If you want faster way of getting up development environment setup, there is >> Vagrant (aimed at people not using OI as their primary system): This is >> currently the _FASTEST_ way to get started: >> https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/blob/oi/hipster/doc/vagrant.md >> >> We could also write some script or copy/paste commands in some wiki page, >> but I always thought that zone setup was easy enough for everybody. Perhaps, >> my judgement is shrouded by the fact that I used zones basically daily. >> >>> 2. How and when to update the build environment. >> Being rolling release, you update as often as you can. > As far as I know you are not doing it with the jenkins env. > Furthmore, sometimes there are new packages (or versions) that have to be > installed manually.
This happens when new package is added and is needed for building (gmake env-check/env-prep is not yet automatically called). >> >>> 3. A sample for a new package (steps that are needed) and a sample for >>> updating an existing package. >> Usually, it’s enough to do following steps (supposing you are going to >> package component foo, which uses configure style Makefile). In components >> dir: >> >> mkdir <category>/foo >> cp ../templates/configure.mk <category>/foo/Makefile >> cd <category>/foo >> vim Makefile > And then? What to change in the Makefile? Eg. COMPONENT_REVISION. > Creating a new package is just one thing. Taking a paking from Oracle > userland; from SFW, whatever source... > What to do with pkgmogrify, what changes are needed in the p5m file? > >> Templates can be found here: >> https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/tree/oi/hipster/templates >> <https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/tree/oi/hipster/templates>. As >> for other examples, it's best to look around components/ dir. >> >>> 4. Tips (collection of best practices and caveats). >> - vagrant > I am not familiar with vagrant; I am not sure whether you can expect that. I don’t expect it and that’s the reason why it is documented in vagrant.md how to get it up and running. > Plus, how to configure your own jenkins? > >> - taking advantage of ZFS > How so? Rollbacking ZFS dataset of dirty workspace is usually faster than git clean -fdx, I used to use it occasionally. >> - gmake env-prep/env-check > My experience is that env-prep works only partially. Especially it failed to > prepare the whole env (gmake env-prep in root folder of the project). Can you elaborate? How does it fail? > >> These are more suitable for blogs. Anything in particular you are looking >> for? > Blogs are a nice thing. Alas they are mostly static and a newcomer cannot > decide what is outdated and what not. > This is also a problem with our wiki, especially because it deals with > several topics and versions (dev vs. hipster). > > What happened to Michael's work? It seems to be stuck… Michael’s work is pending the annoucement before we achieve one last thing, stay tuned ;) Adam _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
