Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] illumos-watch - Dec 2013/Jan 2014

how far does > OpenIndiana benefit from the activities? When can we expect changes to show > up downstream? > > Cheers > Stefan > > > Von: Alasdair Lumsden [alasdai...@gmail.com] > Gesendet: Freitag, 7. Februar 2014 11:30 > An: Discu

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] illumos-watch - Dec 2013/Jan 2014

Hi Alexander, On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: > > Some remarks - second link (fork of illumos-gate) perhaps should link to https://github.com/Nexenta/illumos-nexenta/ . > Thanks - fixed! As for /etc/profile.d and /etc/.login.d - /etc/.login and /etc/profile > delivere

[OpenIndiana-discuss] illumos-watch - Dec 2013/Jan 2014

Hey All, illumos-watch is out, covering December and January: http://everycity.co.uk/blog/2014/02/illumos-watch-january-2014/ Enjoy! Alasdair ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] EveryCity OpenWebStack for php 5.3

Hi Matt, On 27/06/2012 13:12, Matt Connolly wrote: I just came across the EveryCity OpenWebStack repository for SmartOS / Solaris 10. http://smartos.pkg.ec/en/index.shtml Has anyone tried this for OpenIndiana? In particular I have need for php 5.3 and compiling from source looks quite diffi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [discuss] Re: Illumos does not boot on Intel core 5i desktops

On 21/02/2012 18:12, Garrett D'Amore wrote: Its possible that this is fixed with one or more of the newer changes that are in illumos. I'm not sure if OpenIndiana is updating on a frequent enough basis to have seen all the fixes that have been made for more recent Intel hardware. Our pre-stable

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help with website

On 10/11/11 01:59 AM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: Alasdair, thank you. I apologize for my intemperate language. The frustration at people's apparent inability to get the point I was trying to make doesn't justify it. The message was to everyone who contributed to the thread going way way off t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help with website

Hi All, Please, for the sake of everybody's sanity, can people chill out and stop arguing. This thread started as someone wanting to volunteer to help the project, and it has descended into a flame fest. I'd kindly ask that people respect the rules of the mailing list and stop flaming each o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Best way to map SAS drives to physical positions

Hi Jeppe, On 3 Oct 2011, at 14:19, Jeppe Toustrup wrote: > The only way I have found which I can find the order of the drives in > the JBOD along with the above names, without pulling out each drive > and see which one becomes unavailable, is within /etc/path_to_inst, > where I find the following

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fwd: DTrace with PHP 5.3

Hi Lou, On 09/17/11 03:53 PM, Lou Picciano wrote: > Your timing on this couldn't be better - I've been doing a lot of builds > of v5.3.8 this week. One major point for us is that we need the 'embed' > SAPI, but haven't been able to build embed and apxs2 into the same build > tree... > > I'm sure

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Request for volunteers: Building LibreOffice

Hi All, http://alasdairrr.tumblr.com/post/10404734792/libreoffice We've been joined by a LibreOffice developer in #oi-dev, who is willing to help us with a port of LibreOffice to OpenIndiana. Unfortunately all the usual suspects who might work on this are tied up - so I'm mailing the lists t

[OpenIndiana-discuss] DTrace with PHP 5.3

Hi There, Has anyone ported the DTrace patches for PHP to version 5.3? I'm just looking at adding DTrace support to the s10-userland PHP 5.3 build, which may make its way into OpenIndiana in the future. Cheers, Alasdair ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mai

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Heads up: Reorganisation of hg.openindiana.org

me directly or catch me on IRC and I'll fix things. Lastly If anyone has any objections/suggestions to the above changes, let me know. I think it's quite important we tidy hg.openindiana.org up as it's a bit of a mess at present. Cheers, Alasdair -- Alasdair Lumsden http

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Heads up: Reorganisation of hg.openindiana.org

Hi All, As part of the oi_151 sustaining work I'm tidying up hg.openindiana.org We're abandoning mercurial patch queues in favor of branches in clones for managing releases, which will make things much easier. I've created a sustaining/oi_151a directory which contains the gates we're using to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana SFE repository: Call for testers

Hi Alex, On 30 Jul 2011, at 21:54, Alex Viskovatoff wrote: > Alex Viskovatoff > N.B. Prashanth > Guido Berhoerster Great work all! This is a very valuable and welcome addition :-) I'm looking forward to using some of this software myself. Hopefully people out there will find this very helpful

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] replacing a failed drive?

ss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss -- Alasdair Lumsden alasdai...@gmail.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Need help with userland gate package publishing, for Samba 3

Hi Gordon, I think you'll need a newer IPS to do the publish stage using the latest userland-gate. I've CC'd oi-dev to see if the current userland wizards know of any workarounds, or if anyone fancies putting up an IPS repo of the latest IPS. Cheers, Alasdair On 4 Jun 2011, at 05:22, Gordon

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] System confused about whether its running build 147 or 148

Hi Dave, I suspect you have the opensolaris.org publisher set as sticky - this will be holding a full upgrade back. Simply run: pkg set-publisher --non-sticky opensolaris.org Then re-run pkg image-update We're planning on rolling out a fix to this so everybody's opensolaris.org publisher get

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

On 24 May 2011, at 13:10, Ken Gunderson wrote: > Especially when that distro is loosing respect from those who actually > have a clue or two due to continued track record of bugs that result in > very unreliable platform choice for the server room. Inflammatory and arrogant comments like this are

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

Hi All, I too don't appreciate the flamewar on here of Solaris vs Linux, sudo vs pfexec. If you don't like sudo, you don't have to use it. It's as simple as that. But bringing the default in-line with other modern-day Unixes such as MacOS and most of the major Linux distributions seems entirely

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

plyTo: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info? Sent: 13 May 2011 22:31 On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 21:00 +0000, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: > Hi Dan, > > Work has been underway for quite some time on our next build, and the release > is imminent. > &

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

, thanks! i'm not really worked up about any specific fixes, just want to make sure i'm not taking up residence on a sinking ship :) ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/l

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sunfire v20z success!

Hi Gary, That's great news - thanks for reporting your success story :-) Good luck with the thinkpad! Cheers, Alasdair On 17 Apr 2011, at 13:56, Gary Gendel wrote: > All, > > A big congratulations to the development team. My main SOHO server's OS has > not been upgraded since os_134b becau

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [desktop-discuss] Chromium 10 ported to Solaris 11

Hi Ruben, http://chromium.hybridsource.org There are a couple issues I'm still ironing out, as written in the notes. Thanks to James Choi for his early patches from last year that got this Solaris port going. It appears the build was performed with the OpenCSW gcc - does chrome refuse to bui

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [desktop-discuss] Chromium 10 ported to Solaris 11

Hi Ruben, On 11/04/2011 07:54, Ruben wrote: Hello, I recently ported Chromium 10, the open source base of the current Google Chrome 10 stable browser, to Solaris 5.11 snv_151a. A test build for i386 is available here: http://chromium.hybridsource.org There are a couple issues I'm still ironing

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] reboot/shutdown commands (Was: Re: OI boot problem)

On 28/03/2011 16:50, Kevin J. Woolley wrote: Please feel free to use this shell script to "fix" your new releases: #!/bin/sh rm -f /usr/gnu/bin/reboot /usr/gnu/bin/shutdown Or simply leave /usr/gnu/bin out of your path. +1 ___ OpenIndiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New illumos based OpenIndiana test repo

Hi Jonathan, On 28/03/2011 16:11, Jonathan Adams wrote: I assumed that since it was announced to discuss that it was getting close and you just wanted more people to boot and test. how close to "production" do you feel we are? oi-148 + Illumos won't actually make it to a public release; it's

[OpenIndiana-discuss] reboot/shutdown commands (Was: Re: OI boot problem)

Hi All, My proposal would be to add a "Linux/*BSD"-like reboot and shutdown command to /usr/gnu/bin The traditionalist UNIX folk don't typically run /usr/gnu/bin at the front of their path, whilst the more progressive amongst us do. So this should satisfy both parties. When I was switching

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New illumos based OpenIndiana test repo

Hi All, This is an internal test and development repo for a forthcoming release; it's not a release in and of itself, so please don't update your day to day workstations to this. Only install this if you're interested in developing OpenIndiana+Illumos and know what you're doing. If you don

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI boot problem

em more in line with BSD and Linux. What do others think? Alasdair. -- Alasdair Lumsden alasdai...@gmail.com -Original Message- From: Apostolos Syropoulos Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 13:10:35 To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Reply-To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [Ope

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris Express server name broadcast

On 5 Mar 2011, at 22:25, Dmitry G. Kozhinov wrote: > We all (OpenIndiana and Solaris users) are using technology created by Sun. > Why not be just helpful? There are Oracle employees here at the list > providing very helpful information - you call the names. There are Linux and > FreeBSD users

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris Express server name broadcast

Hi All, First off, I shouldn't have been grumpy and complained S11X was being asked about on here. I apologise - this list is welcome to everyone. I definitely don't want to cultivate an us-vs-them attitude; We should all be friendly to each other, including to beginners. And of course, we sho

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris Express server name broadcast

Hi Robert, This list is for discussion of OpenIndiana rather than to provide support for Solaris 11 Express. If Oracle are failing to provide community support channels, you might want to take this up with them. Regards, Alasdair ___ OpenIndiana-disc

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Build 147 ZFS / NFS / iSCSI system reboot

On 23 Feb 2011, at 23:18, Steve Jacobson wrote: > Alasdair - this looks very relevant - Thanks! Unfortunately, I don't have a > build environment set up right now, so I'm not sure how soon I can test this. > Within a couple of days, though, I hope to have some good data on this. > > -steve j

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] why is OI- illumos based 148a 805mb

On 24 Feb 2011, at 00:10, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > On 02/23/11 04:02 PM, Sean wrote: >>> i'm just wondering why is illumos based OI dev build 148a larger then >>> solaris 11 express? >> >> Because it has more bits? o_O > > And probably because Solaris 11 Express removed packages from the LiveCD

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Build 147 ZFS / NFS / iSCSI system reboot

On 18 Feb 2011, at 22:54, Steve Jacobson wrote: > We're using ietd 1.4.20.2 for the iSCSI target software with a very basic > configuration: > > Target iqn.2007-07.com.doyenz:dshelf4.megaraid0 >Lun 0 Path=/dev/sdc,Type=blockio >Lun 1 Path=/dev/sdd,Type=blockio >Lun 2 Path

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The Illumos pkgsrc project

On 2 Feb 2011, at 19:30, Mads Worsøe Duun wrote: > *The Illumos pkgsrc project* > > I have created Illumos pkgsrc project at > http://www.illumos.org/projects/worsoe. Great stuff! > The is about making NetBSD's pkgsrc http://www.pkgsrc.org shine on > Illumos/Openindiana. Pkgsrc already work on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZVOL VS File backed LU?

On 31 Jan 2011, at 21:34, Jordan McQuown wrote: > Logical unit All our OpenSolaris based SANs (including branded Sun Unified Storage boxes running Fishworks) use ZVols for COMSTAR exported LU's - afaik its the accepted way of doing things! Cheers, Alasdair

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZVOL VS File backed LU?

On 31 Jan 2011, at 20:57, Jordan McQuown wrote: > Which do you prefer and why? When I first started playing with ZFS during the > 2009.06 release area it seemed file based was the way to go. I'm just > wondering what other people are doing. Hi Jordan, Excuse the dumb question but what do you

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI @ Linux & Open Source Expo - London, 2nd & 3rd February!

Hi All, On 27 Jan 2011, at 14:41, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: > Hi All, > > Great News! OpenIndiana will be exhibiting at the London Linux & Open Source > Expo on the 2nd and 3rd February (Next week!). I just wanted to remind people about the expo, which is on Wednesday and T

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI @ Linux & Open Source Expo - London, 2nd & 3rd February!

Hi All, Great News! OpenIndiana will be exhibiting at the London Linux & Open Source Expo on the 2nd and 3rd February (Next week!). This is being held at the Barbican in London. We're on stand 58. http://www.opensourceexpo.co.uk/ If any OpenIndiana/Illumos developers would like to help man the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

On 26 Jan 2011, at 00:00, Edward Martinez wrote: >Hi Alasdair > > Google Summer of Code 2011 was just announce, wondering if OI can benefit > by taking part? > http://code.google.com/soc/ I don't know much about the Google Summer of Code, and time-wise I'm pretty over-stretched. Would y

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

On 25 Jan 2011, at 22:38, Kevin J. Woolley wrote: > This is exactly the mentoring offer I've been waiting for. I'll be happy to > document what I learn; hopefully this well help as well. > > I'm pretty good at building software, can often fix build bugs and port > between Unix systems where th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

Hi Ken, On 25 Jan 2011, at 18:50, Ken Gunderson wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 20:36 +, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I believe now would be a really good time for us to create our first stable >> branch of OpenIndiana, given the timing o

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Project seeks SPARC M3000

l.com As a project we would very much like to make OpenIndiana on SPARC a viable supportable alternative to Oracle Solaris 11, and your support can help make this happen. Many thanks, Alasdair -- Alasdair Lumsden OpenIndiana Project Lead

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

On 18 Jan 2011, at 18:31, Gordon Ross wrote: > Dave Miner writes: > [...] >>> Perhaps refactoring of Caiman is needed, where the Live CD ships with a >>> pkg repo, starts a pkg server, and does an install from that. Not sure >>> how feasible this would be. Given how complete pkg is, probably not a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] No keyboard during install of oi 148

On 01/18/11 12:39 PM, Michael Schuster wrote: that something is in a tight "spawn child which dies" loop. you could easily test this theory by doing repeated "ps -ef | sort -n +1 | tail " and looking at the jumps the pids make (assuming they haven't wrapped around yet, which in itself - if it h

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

Hi Gabriel, On 01/17/11 10:07 AM, Gabriel de la Cruz wrote: Thanks! A place to start is a place to start, and an stable server release is the most urgent one among all the other options. Great - thanks for the feedback! Some people is talking about the server-desktop question, I particularly

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

Hi Alan, On 15 Jan 2011, at 20:34, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > On 01/15/11 03:34 AM, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: >> Unfortunately this is something we have inherited from Oracle. Some of the >> packages need to be split, so that they don't pull in such a large tree of >> d

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

On 15 Jan 2011, at 14:47, Ivan Wang wrote: > Then I am also one of the minority here.. > > I do use solaris/opensolaris/openindiana as desktop and plan to > continue doing so until all is lost. > This goes back to my school day sitting in front of ultra1 in the lab. > Old habit dies hard. > > Pl

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

On 15 Jan 2011, at 12:05, Dmitry G. Kozhinov wrote: > Alasdair, > > I understand that the proposed stable branch would be minimalistic to save > developer time an effort, but isn't there a danger of the opposite - that > having two branches would nearly double the labor amount? Hi Dmitry, It

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

On 15 Jan 2011, at 09:24, Matt Wilby wrote: > Maybe worth adding ZSH to the list (gets installed by default). > > Postfix perhaps? Possibly, although the default MTA is (unfortunately!) sendmail. Given the limited resources, unless someone steps forward to assist with maintaining security fixe

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana branding

On 15 Jan 2011, at 08:33, Jesus Cea wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 14/01/11 21:53, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: >> OpenIndiana is technically SunOS 5.11, and to maintain compatibility >> we'll be keeping this for the foreseeable future. P

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

On 15 Jan 2011, at 02:18, Anil wrote: > Have you guys thought about implementing pkgsrc natively for 3rd > party/userland packages? > > http://www.netbsd.org/docs/software/packages.html#platforms > > I recently came across it and it's quite interesting. I am debating to > use that in conjunction

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

Hi Deano, Thanks for your feedback - I appreciate you taking the time to write a big reply. On 15 Jan 2011, at 01:20, Deano wrote: > Hi, > Sounds like an good move, however I don't think that you mentioned or > proposed how we tackle one issue of taking OI into production server (which > is pos

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

On 15 Jan 2011, at 10:37, Hairry Harry wrote: > The advice please is if the overall plan is to move completely to a > server based distro and use as a desktop OS is limited should I just > stop wasting my time and step off now and return to linux. Mike, I think you've misunderstood the proposal

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

On 14 Jan 2011, at 21:47, Lou Picciano wrote: > Fantastic. I'm in. How to help? There are lots of areas to get involved with - the Website, documentation (New manpages, Tidying up the build documentation on the wiki, etc), Illumos integration, Internationalisation, bug report triaging/assignme

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

On 14 Jan 2011, at 22:02, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote: > This probably means no live distro. Strictly installable images. > > On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 16:52, Dmitry G. Kozhinov wrote: >> That is, no GUI? Yeah that's correct - you can still boot the live CD for oi_148 and subsequent dev builds, but

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

On 14 Jan 2011, at 21:46, Edward Martinez wrote: > On 01/14/11 12:36, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: >> Some have called for a stable branch after Illumos is integrated > > Hi, > > had a thought if it's feasible and if shilllix does not mind, is to use > shillix 7.2 (i

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana branding

Hi Russell, On 14 Jan 2011, at 20:19, russell wrote: > This evening when the GLtext screensaver started it was displaying SunOS > 5.11, will the default for this screensaver be changed to OI in future. > At what point in the future will OpenIndiana stop being OpenIndiana bXXX and > become OpenI

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

Hi All, I believe now would be a really good time for us to create our first stable branch of OpenIndiana, given the timing of some developments within the project. Below I've outlined my proposal and I'd love feedback from the community and from OI developers! Obviously as a new project with

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI148 and zones

Hi Deano, I hit this problem myself - can you try running "pkg image-update" again? I had to run it twice before OI stated "No updates available". If you get "Np updates available" and your Zones still won't install, then something more serious may be up. It would also be useful to see the outp

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Some questions about OpenIndiana

On 31 Dec 2010, at 00:32, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote: > Hi there > > Long time FreeBSD user, I recently used OpenIndiana live CD to recover > a faulty zpool on which FreeBSD kept crashing. > > Was pleasantly surprised on how smooth everything went. > > I am now looking at migrating our file server

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi text install question

Hi Edward, On 4 Jan 2011, at 21:32, Edward Martinez wrote: > Hi, > > > Is OI Text Install download only a base install, where i would be required to > install the > apps i need on top of that, something similar to NetBSD? Yes - it installs a small set of packages which does NOT include Gnome/

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help deploying an OpenIndiana buildbot for python?

On 26 Oct 2010, at 23:52, Jesus Cea wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi. I am a python core developer and recently we hit some > Solaris/OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana problems. > > Some details: > > http://bugs.python.org/issue10142 > > http://bugs.python.org/issue4111 >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Package repositories?

Hi Ken, On 26 Oct 2010, at 14:32, ken mays wrote: > Alasdair, > > The original question asked if Blastwave maintained certain packages. > > The Blastwave packaging solution is not OpenSolaris specific or > oriented/based on that revised OS platform so will have faults based on > legacy suppor

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Enhancement to IPS (pkg)??

On 26 Oct 2010, at 21:10, Jesus Cea wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 26/10/10 01:43, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: >> OpenSolaris was never capable of doing this so long as it failed to >> provide free security/bug fixes, and this is something we

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Package repositories?

Hi Christopher, On 26 Oct 2010, at 01:20, Christopher Chan wrote: > With regards to postfix and dovecot, I enable dove sasl support for postfix > (besides other stuff like milters,cdb, etc), vpopmail support for dovecot and > I also include sieve support for dovecot. How do you feel about havin

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Stable 134+ downlaod?

Hi Frank, On 26 Oct 2010, at 00:08, Frank Middleton wrote: > On 10/19/10 19:07, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Once the 134+ ONNV (kernel+core userland) is built, we'll make it >> available as an upgrade to OpenSolaris snv_134. Hopefully this week, >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 3, Issue 63

On 25 Oct 2010, at 13:30, Gary Gendel wrote: > Blastwave seems to be maintained adequately. The only problem I find with > Blastwave is that it requires the world to be brought in, duplicating > libraries already available as native packages to /opt/csw/. If that doesn't > bother you then bl

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Package repositories?

On 25 Oct 2010, at 06:46, Joachim Pihl wrote: > Morning, all! > > I installed OpenIndiana a few weeks ago on my home file server, as a > replacement for an old version of Solaris Community Edition after a bad case > of on-disk corruption. I figure it is time to set up an MTA and all the > asso

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Enhancement to IPS (pkg)??

On 25 Oct 2010, at 06:20, Sunay Tripathi wrote: > I missed looking at this before hand. Let me check this out before we > go further. But I would point out that SMF service is fine. Its the > tarball/rsync process to get the bits that worrying. It would be good > to make the creation of the loca

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Enhancement to IPS (pkg)??

On 25 Oct 2010, at 05:20, Sunay Tripathi wrote: >> I also don't think that the only "commercial viability" of OpenIndiana >> will come from being to upgrade existing Solaris 10 installs. Surely >> we want it to be commercially viable for free-standing new deployments >> as well -- a goal which is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Package lists

On 24 Oct 2010, at 19:23, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > taemun wrote: >> Lastly, I'd love to see some kind of alias system worked out for pkg, >> whereby typing "pkg install libvorbis" can work out by itself that libvorbis >> is part of the ogg_vorbis pkg, and just go get that. Having to type pkg >>

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Package lists

Hi Taemun, On 24 Oct 2010, at 04:27, taemun wrote: > Someone on Debian-testing has added rows for claws-mail and pgadmin3, and > I'm going to have to remove them. > > The layout of that sheet is intentionally following that of distrowatch > (Column A is of the form "abiword (2.8.6)", which Colum

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Package lists

On 24 Oct 2010, at 01:39, Jeppe Toustrup wrote: > I have started with making a copy of the DistroWatch sheet, and tried > to only list server related packages on that list - since it's what I > know most about. It mainly shows lack in mail servers (exim, postfix), > ftp servers (proftpd, vsftpd),

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Package repositories?

On 25 Oct 2010, at 16:56, ken mays wrote: > The inquired packages are within Blastwave's stronghold and still > 'professionally' maintained and supported for the global Solaris/OpenSolaris > community: > > 1. PostgreSQL 8.4.3 > 2. GCC 4.5.1 / GDB 7.2 > 3. Postfix 2.7.1 > 4. Dovecot 1.0.13 > 5.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Package lists

On 23 Oct 2010, at 18:22, taemun wrote: > Tenzer and I spent a few minutes harvesting distrowatch, and now we have a > shiny: > https://spreadsheets0.google.com/ccc?key=tpU3GvToyo7F_zrxYIIla9Q&authkey=CLyhzsQD&hl=en&authkey=CLyhzsQD#gid=2 > >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] other FS

On 23 Oct 2010, at 14:38, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: >> When you say "since support was actually there", can you clarify? > > When I reported this "bug" Jörg Schilling replied and he wrote in that forum > that he had prepared everything but SUN did not wanted this additional bits > and so the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] other FS

On 23 Oct 2010, at 14:13, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: > Hello, > > More than one year ago I asked in a OpenSolaris forum whether the hsfs > filesystem > in Solaris supports multi-extent files: > > http://www.archivum.info/opensolaris-b...@opensolaris.org/2009-06/00042/%28osol-bugs%29-Question-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fun Task - Comparing OI packages vs CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu etc

On 23 Oct 2010, at 14:06, Jeppe Toustrup wrote: > Wouldn't it be easier to just use DistroWatch's overview of the most > popular packages versions in each distribution? > http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=openindiana > http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=centos > http://distr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Package lists

On 23 Oct 2010, at 06:56, Kevin J. Woolley wrote: > Hello folks, > > I've done CentOS 5.5, save for: > > - most libraries (their versions are dependent on the versions of the > installed apps in many cases) > - language modules, etc. > - variants (no-x11, etc.) > - things that I recognise to be

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fun Task - Comparing OI packages vs CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu etc

On 23 Oct 2010, at 10:05, Andrey N. Oktyabrski wrote: > On 10/23/10 12:24, James O'Gorman wrote: >>> Why not to use pkgsrc? >> Several reasons, the least of which being that pkgsrc requires >> installing its own pkg utilities and therefore not IPS. > But I can download packages, write it on cd/dv

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fun Task - Comparing OI packages vs CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu etc

On 23 Oct 2010, at 00:15, Kevin J. Woolley wrote: > Is there a reasonably complete, up-to-date set of documentation for the > packaging process? No - not yet. We could certainly do with one. A section of the Handbook might be a worthwhile location for such info. > I'm happy to help build pac

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Fun Task - Comparing OI packages vs CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu etc

Hi All, I've got a fun task for someone who is looking to contribute to the project. It would be really useful to compare packages and versions between: OpenIndiana oi_147 CentOS/RHEL 5.5 and 6 Debian 5 Ubuntu 10 FreeBSD Doing this in a spreadsheet might be the easiest method. The "primary key"

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] nge driver

Hi Chris, Does it work with a different network card in the box? The /etc/hostname.nge0 file can simply have an IP in it - I generally use the format "1.2.3.4/24 up" in the file (skipping the requirement for an /etc/netmasks) entry. Would you mind pasting the content of: dladm show-phys dladm

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] nge driver

On 17 Oct 2010, at 01:00, Christopher Chan wrote: > hi all, > > Anybody using OI with Nvidia 6150E based boards? > > I got this in the logs. > > Oct 14 16:23:01 ns1 nge: [ID 801725 kern.info] NOTICE: nge0: Using FIXED > interrupt type > Oct 14 16:23:01 ns1 pcplusmp: [ID 805372 kern.info] pcplu

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Stable 134+ downlaod?

Hi All, Once the 134+ ONNV (kernel+core userland) is built, we'll make it available as an upgrade to OpenSolaris snv_134. Hopefully this week, if not then next week. Eventually we will be doing a stable branch built from this kernel, in the not too distant future - aiming for Q1.2010 ideally.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Building Applications

On 14 Oct 2010, at 22:31, Kevin J. Woolley wrote: > I don't believe a combined 32/64-bit Perl is possible. If it was, it'd still > be pretty icky, from an implementation point of view. (Is it possible for a > 64-bit binary to dynamically load 32-bit libs? I'm pretty sure the reverse > isn't

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Building Applications

On 13 Oct 2010, at 15:36, russell wrote: > Hi, > > While OpenIndiana (OpenSolaris/Solaris) provide 32 and 64 bit libraries for > building 64 bit applications. > However if you want to include bindings to Perl for example, the version > shipped with OpenIndiana is 32bit including it libraries. S

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The name: "OpenIndiana"

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Gabriel de la Cruz wrote: > So, your question is a good one... is that name enough to "compete" with them? I would have no issue recommending "OpenIndiana" in a board room to a bunch of pointy-haired-bosses* - it sounds way more corporate than Ubuntu, FreeBSD or C

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The name: "OpenIndiana"

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Søren Krarup Olesen wrote: > Yes, I know all that, but I believe that legacy can be carried on in an > elegant way without being influenced by e.g. the Indiana project. > Besides, the term "Open" is more or less superflous these days; people > care about things bei

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] openindiana more popular

On 4 Oct 2010, at 21:22, Daniel Kjar wrote: > I still think throwing "hunt" or some of the other old terminal based bsd > games in there would be hilarious. I'd quite like to throw on some of the Infocom text adventure games :) Zork I, II and III were released as freeware. My favourite was The

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] openindiana more popular

On 4 Oct 2010, at 02:57, Allan E. Registos wrote: > The current effort must be on the stabilizing of the platform. Gaming support > in Linux is poor, how much more for this early release of OpenIndiana. Solaris isn't really a gaming platform. The focus of the operating system development has al

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] KDE on OpenIndiana (was: openindiana more popular)

On 2 Oct 2010, at 22:23, Alex Kuster wrote: > Yes, I've already knew the bionicmutton repo (thanks for the other urls > btw) > But, any chances to get it into the OpenIndiana repos ? (that's the correct > question !) We'd love to have KDE as a first class citizen in the main repos - we've chatt

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] openindiana more popular

On 2 Oct 2010, at 21:01, Edward Martinez wrote: > Hi Alasdair, :-) > > Are there any plans about porting LibreOffice to OpenIndiana? > Because it appears many or all of the linux distros will make the switch to > LibreOffice. > http://news.softpedia.com/news/Future-Ubuntu-Releases-Will-Ship-wit

[OpenIndiana-discuss] oi_148 release date (Was: Re: My OpenIndiana is working, Now I need to create a cluster with a 2nd node)

On 2 Oct 2010, at 14:14, ken mays wrote: > Hi Steve, > > I've used OpenHA for our 4-node DB and web cluster. OpenIndiana works fine, > but wait till the next release (tomorrow?). Probably not - although we expect to get most of it done this weekend. _

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] openindiana more popular

On 1 Oct 2010, at 19:06, Daniel Kjar wrote: > how about opendoom distributed with the os? That or 'hunt'! I think I might package up and include "Zork" :-) I'd quite like to provide figlet and cowsay too. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bordeaux running on OpenIndiana

On 1 Oct 2010, at 09:39, Tom Wickline wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > Today I compiled Bordeaux 2.0.8, Wine 1.2 and our other bundled tools (wget, > unzip, cabextract) etc. on OpenIndiana > and was pleasantly surprised how well everything went. Fantastic :-) It's great ot hear things went smoothly.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Manpages and documentation -- where to start?

On 30 Sep 2010, at 09:41, Paul Johnston wrote: > In terms of what could do with being more up to date may I venture the > zpool and zfs entries as starters? > They are fairly quick moving facets of the OS and the ones (man pages) > on my machine are over 9 months old. > > Regards Paul Hi Paul,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Removal of old Dev Hosts

On 30 Sep 2010, at 13:00, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote: > Alasdair, > > do you still need a hand on the login LDAPification / Kerberization task? > > Cheers > Stefan. Hi Stefan, Yes please - very much so. Are you on the oi-infra list? We could take the discussion there.. Cheers, Alasdair

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