[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Weekly News #6

2006-04-02 Thread Glynn Foster
Hi, Here's OpenSolaris Weekly News #5. As always feedback, or content [from the missing represented communities] welcome. Send any content to me each Sunday at the latest, and I'll include it in the summaries - there's a hell of a lot of mailing lists being created, and there's no way I can hope t

[osol-discuss] Re: Trouble with ON's "perl" when building from a SVN-based sourcerepository...

2006-04-02 Thread Roland Mainz
Alan Burlison wrote: > Roland Mainz wrote: > > Actually it's very harmfull - but in the reverse way. Somehow makeing > > "make clean" and/or "make clobber" can remove the ".svn/" subdirs, > > removing the ability to generate diffs (e.g. "svn diff") in the tree... > > Hmm, is that just 5.6.1 or is

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RFE: Relax "cstyle" limit of 80 characters in OS/Net...

2006-04-02 Thread Jonathan Adams
On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 04:52:01PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Quite; many of our codereview tools expect a 80 columns output > > and/or support side-by-side diffs. > > > > 132 side-by-side just doesn't work for many people. > > A noticable part of the code h

Re: [osol-discuss] uncluttering df output

2006-04-02 Thread Roland Mainz
Peter Tribble wrote: > One way I would imagine approaching this would be to allow multiple > fstypes to be > specified with -F. This way, I could easily specify what I wanted to > monitor, > rather than trying to filter out the stuff I don't want. What about simply allowing extended regular expres

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Slowaris vs. Solaris

2006-04-02 Thread Alan Hargreaves
Darren J Moffat wrote: UNIX admin wrote: Agreed. SMC sucks dead bunnies through a bent straw sideways; but then again, being a hardcore shell guy, perhaps I'm the wrong person to write that. /usr/sadm/bin/sm* is the CLI interface to SMC. What can we do (other than the performance issue) t

Re: [osol-discuss] RFE: Relax "cstyle" limit of 80 characters in OS/Net...

2006-04-02 Thread Hugh McIntyre
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But there's no particular reason, I think, why this can't be formatted like: if (dp == ¬able) { (void) printf("Manufacturer is unknown because of the orange " "forum embargo.\n" "As the orange forum likes to

RE: [osol-discuss] PlatinGUI for SAP on Solaris x86

2006-04-02 Thread Döhr, Markus ICC-H
> hello guys, am new to this site. installed Solaris 10 for x86 > on my Dell laptop and need help to get the SAP Java GUI > running. There is a working version of the PlatinGUI > application for the Solaris for UltraSparc platform. > > hoping someone has already taken a look at this and solved

Re: [osol-discuss] Mplayer 1.0pre8 released for Solaris (Mplayer for Solaris project)

2006-04-02 Thread Derek E. Lewis
Ken, It looks like you've made a rather complete MPlayer package for Solaris/x86; however, I do see a couple of minor problems. It would be highly appreciated by the MPlayer development team if you would call the version of your MPlayer binary package what it is -- a CVS release from April 2

[osol-discuss] Mplayer 1.0pre8 released for Solaris (Mplayer for Solaris project)

2006-04-02 Thread ken mays
A work in progress...this is the first release of Mplayer 1.0pre8 for Solaris. This is in direct response to the article "Ben Rockwood — King Kong on DVD... on OpenSolaris" which is on CuddleTech's blog and PlanetSolaris.org websites. Here is the package for Solaris x86. I'll build the SPARC vers

[osol-discuss] Re: RFC: How about an audio newsgroup?

2006-04-02 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
On solaris versions that use grub, modloading the driver is more obnoxious, in that it causes a reboot to update the boot archive, because it touches /etc/name_to_major. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list op

[osol-discuss] Re: uncluttering df output

2006-04-02 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> I think the correct way to do this would be to use > the ignore flag in > /etc/mnttab > appropriately and systematically, to get the defaults > right. I can't see I wish I could agree; however, the problem with that is the number of places the change would have to be made. Right now, AFAIK only

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Why LSB filesystem layout is bad,part 1 ...

2006-04-02 Thread Erast Benson
On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 16:32 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > There is more than disliking it. > > > > > > If e.g. 'rsh' is linked to 'ssh', people do not get what they expect. > > > > this is depends on alternative's weight... if rexec tools are not

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Why LSB filesystem layout is bad,part 1 ...

2006-04-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is more than disliking it. > > > > If e.g. 'rsh' is linked to 'ssh', people do not get what they expect. > > this is depends on alternative's weight... if rexec tools are not > installed, ssh may still provide rsh functionality. It is not. And p

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Why LSB filesystem layout is bad,part 1 ...

2006-04-02 Thread Erast Benson
On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 13:42 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Tatjana S Heuser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Martin Man wrote: > > > debian comes with alternatives mechanism that works pretty well in most > > > cases. > > > > This alternatives mechanism in particular struck me as something I >

[osol-discuss] CS Students: Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe motherboard and Nevada b37+ research

2006-04-02 Thread ken mays
I'd thought this would be something interesting for college students wanting to work on something different. The research deals a little with the Asus A8R32-MVP motherboard, SATA/SAS. RAID, X11, ZFS, HDTV and Sun HCL Level 2 certification. The project goal is simple. You'll want to get the Asus

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Why LSB filesystem layout is bad,part 1 ...

2006-04-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
Tatjana S Heuser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin Man wrote: > > debian comes with alternatives mechanism that works pretty well in most > > cases. > > This alternatives mechanism in particular struck me as something I > immediately > and strongly disliked, once that I had found out why tho

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RFC: How about an audio newsgroup?

2006-04-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dev Mazumdar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We've actually adopted the 6month license expiration from Joerg Schilling's > software. Forced upgrade also helps us in bug fixing and beta testing new > features in OSS. Does this mean that there is no source? Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home)

Re: Why LSB filesystem layout is bad, part 1 ... / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Proposal to remove /usr/sfw anditsdependencies from the bas

2006-04-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
Chris Ricker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1000s of programs in /usr/bin sucks, but it does offer two benefits over > the Solaris "shove everything in a different obscure dir" style: > 1. not have the one they want in their $PATH > 2. have the one they want in their $PATH, but only after on

[osol-discuss] PlatinGUI for SAP on Solaris x86

2006-04-02 Thread Edmund Macaso
hello guys, am new to this site. installed Solaris 10 for x86 on my Dell laptop and need help to get the SAP Java GUI running. There is a working version of the PlatinGUI application for the Solaris for UltraSparc platform. hoping someone has already taken a look at this and solved the bug/error

Re: [osol-discuss] RFE: Relax "cstyle" limit of 80 characters in OS/Net...

2006-04-02 Thread Casper . Dik
>Looks more ugly then the long lines > >> But there's no particular reason, I think, why this can't be formatted like: >> >> if (dp == ¬able) { >> (void) printf("Manufacturer is unknown because of the orange " >> "forum embargo.\n" >> "As the ora

Re: [osol-discuss] RFE: Relax "cstyle" limit of 80 characters in OS/Net...

2006-04-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Then CSTYLE would not barf but your code reviewers might. > > In some cases, we have code which is formatted like this: > > if (dp == ¬able) { > printf("Manufacturer is unknown because of the orange forum embargo.\n"); > printf("As the orange forum likes to get mo

Re: [osol-discuss] RFE: Relax "cstyle" limit of 80 characters in OS/Net...

2006-04-02 Thread Casper . Dik
>If you argue with terminals, you need to reduce the width to 79 as many >terminals cannot correctly display 80 columns. 80 is fine for the majority of software terminals. >What would happen if someone did write this: > > if (dp == ¬able) { > /* BEGIN CSTYLED */ >