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

2010-10-23 Thread James O'Gorman
On 23 Oct 2010, at 07:54, "Andrey N. Oktyabrski" wrote: > On 10/23/10 04:25, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: >> There are a couple of methods of doing it, but writing spec files for >> pkgbuild is probably one of the more standard methods (although I >> don't find spec files that easy to put together). J

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

2010-10-23 Thread Andrey N. Oktyabrski
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/dvd/flash, go to the place-without-internet and install there. I'm

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

2010-10-23 Thread Alasdair Lumsden
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] Package lists

2010-10-23 Thread Alasdair Lumsden
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

2010-10-23 Thread Jeppe Toustrup
2010/10/23 Alasdair Lumsden : > 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 spread

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

2010-10-23 Thread Alasdair Lumsden
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

[OpenIndiana-discuss] other FS

2010-10-23 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
Hello, More than one year ago I asked in a OpenSolaris forum whether thehsfs filesystem in Solaris supports multi-extent files: http://www.archivum.info/opensolaris-b...@opensolaris.org/2009-06/00042/%28osol-bugs%29-Question-about-Multi-extent-ISO9660-files.html Since support was actually

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] other FS

2010-10-23 Thread Alasdair Lumsden
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] Package lists

2010-10-23 Thread taemun
I've added all the items for OI_147 that I can find in pkg list > asd cat asd | grep A bunch of packages are just labelled as 0.5.11, which isn't particularly useful. Cheers, On 23 October 2010 23:59, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: > On 23 Oct 2010, at 06:56, Kevin J. Woolley wrote: > > > Hello folk

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] other FS

2010-10-23 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
Jörg Schilling > 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 they were sitting somewhere... >If support is mi

[OpenIndiana-discuss] how to report system crash

2010-10-23 Thread Dirk Schelfhout
Hi, running 147 I recently had a system hang / crash where the system rebooted. I was copying files using the gui from 1 raidz zpool to another raidz zpool. ( 20 gig or so ) How do I document this. didn't find anything in the log files . Which log file should i look for. do I have to turn on core

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] other FS

2010-10-23 Thread Alasdair Lumsden
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] Fun Task - Comparing OI packages vs CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu etc

2010-10-23 Thread Andrey N. Oktyabrski
On 10/23/10 16:57, Alasdair Lumsden 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/dvd/flash, go to the place-without-internet and install there. Y

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Package lists

2010-10-23 Thread taemun
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

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

2010-10-23 Thread Sunay Tripathi
Guys, Let me introduce myself. My name is Sunay Tripathi who *had* been with Sun/Solaris for a long long time and tinkered around with the OS. Its great to see you guys taking the initiative. I was looking to see if people were looking to take any major projects. Given the focus around packaging,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] other FS

2010-10-23 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
>> I have created pkgadd/pkgrm packages for all these programs from >> http://www.sunfreepacks.com/ so I guess I can help with these. > > We'd absolutely love to get those integrated, and help would very much be >appreciated. > > We're working on providing an easy method to get additional

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

2010-10-23 Thread ober
On 10/22/10 11:54 PM, Andrey N. Oktyabrski wrote: On 10/23/10 04:25, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: There are a couple of methods of doing it, but writing spec files for pkgbuild is probably one of the more standard methods (although I don't find spec files that easy to put together). James O'Gorman i

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

2010-10-23 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Sunay: Nice to see you in action again. On the Belenix team, we're likely to move ahead with with RPM5 since we've decided to not go ahead with IPS, and since Debian-legal are not happy with Nexenta modifying dpkg and using it (which puts apt-get out of reach by extension). A nice to have for us

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

2010-10-23 Thread Albert Lee
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Sunay Tripathi wrote: > Guys, > > Let me introduce myself. My name is Sunay Tripathi who *had* been with > Sun/Solaris for a long long time and tinkered around with the OS. Its > great to see you guys taking the initiative. I was looking to see if > people were loo

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

2010-10-23 Thread Andrey N. Oktyabrski
On 10/24/10 12:11, ober wrote: Pkgsrc already builds on openindiana. ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/misc/openindiana has the 1400 packages that already build. This link is wrong :-( ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http:/

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Package lists

2010-10-23 Thread Alasdair Lumsden
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] Enhancement to IPS (pkg)??

2010-10-23 Thread Sunay Tripathi
On 10/23/10 03:17 PM, Albert Lee wrote: On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Sunay Tripathi wrote: Guys, Let me introduce myself. My name is Sunay Tripathi who *had* been with Sun/Solaris for a long long time and tinkered around with the OS. Its great to see you guys taking the initiative. I was

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

2010-10-23 Thread Sunay Tripathi
Sriram, Good to hear from the Belenix team as well. Having multiple pkg formats, distribution channel is not a bad idea. You guys should try and keep the pkg format and distribution channel as close to CentOS as possible if you want to use RPM5. That would allow people familiar with that style to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Package lists

2010-10-23 Thread Hillel Lubman
There used to be a "wanted" lis on genunix for software which was missing from OpenSolaris, but was considered useful for different purposes (to encourage someone to port/package it). May be you can make a section on Wiki with wanted packages (with different subsections like desktop/server/system t

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

2010-10-23 Thread ken mays
Pkgsrc has 5021+ packages built on Solaris 10 SPARC/x86. ~Ken --- On Sat, 10/23/10, Andrey N. Oktyabrski wrote: > From: Andrey N. Oktyabrski > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fun Task - Comparing OI packages vs > CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu etc > To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" > Date: Sa

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Package lists

2010-10-23 Thread Jeppe Toustrup
2010/10/24 Alasdair Lumsden : > This is absolutely fantastic work - thanks to everyone who has contributed to > it :) You're welcome... > The next step is to split packages into: > > 1. Packages we have but that should be updated to a newer version > 2. Packages we are missing, but want to add

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Package lists

2010-10-23 Thread taemun
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 Columns B & C are automatically updated from). The number of rows ex

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

2010-10-23 Thread Joshua M. Clulow
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Sunay Tripathi wrote: > http://sunaytripathi.wordpress.com/2010/10/23/solaris-as-an-open-source-alternative-to-linux/ "The install is another story altogether, given that a large amount of code for automatic install has not even been opensourced" Which parts o