[osol-discuss] Re: SOSUG #7 - Call for speakers

2006-05-02 Thread Ché Kristo
We have had talks in the past about OSS software that runs on top of Solaris that was by no means solaris specific...i'm sure Unix related topics should keep us all interested. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: SOSUG #7 - Call for speakers

2006-05-02 Thread Ché Kristo
We won't make that mistake again :) Tuesday sounds great...Thursday is not the best day imho, too late in the week. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: SOSUG #7 - Call for speakers

2006-05-02 Thread Alan Hargreaves
Rodrick Brown wrote: Does the topic have to be Sun/Solaris Centric? Or would any UNIX related technology talks be allowed such as an authors of well known opensource applications giving overviews? I certainly have no problem with that. On the subject of the meeting date. You know how I mentio

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: re:live upgrade with zones

2006-05-02 Thread Ian Collins
David Comay wrote: >No, this functionality is not yet available in Solaris Express. > > > Any idea when we will see it? I've gotten a little carried away adding zones, they are just too handy... Ian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-d

[osol-discuss] Re: re:live upgrade with zones

2006-05-02 Thread David Comay
No, this functionality is not yet available in Solaris Express. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Request for new forum: embedded-discuss

2006-05-02 Thread Bart Smaalders
Darren Reed wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (General discussions of cross-compilation is suitable for either of opensolaris-code or tools-discuss; potential platforms probably should start talking here; there are communities and projects associated with

Re: [osol-discuss] Request for new forum: embedded-discuss

2006-05-02 Thread Mike Ditto
Darren Reed wrote: I'm trying to advocate expanding the meaning of "appliances", with respect to OpenSolaris, so that as a community or forum it has a better chance of matching up with more projects. I think I'm with Darren in that my (perhaps mistaken) impression of the charter of the Applianc

Re: [osol-discuss] Propose removing [] prefixes in Subject

2006-05-02 Thread Ian Collins
Paul Jakma wrote: > On Tue, 2 May 2006, Ian Collins wrote: > >> You can also simply do what I've just done and change your filters to >> use 'To' and 'CC'. > > > Filtering on the 'X-BeenThere' header which mailman includes would > probably be more robust. > Doesn't appear to be there when one is i

[osol-discuss] Re: SOSUG #7 - Call for speakers

2006-05-02 Thread Boyd Adamson
Personally I'd be happy with that... of course, living 800km away and only being present (and presenting at) on meeting may devalue my opinion :) On 03/05/2006, at 1:15 AM, Rodrick Brown wrote: Does the topic have to be Sun/Solaris Centric? Or would any UNIX related technology talks be all

[osol-discuss] Announcing: ksh93-integration project web page now open...

2006-05-02 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! The ksh93-integration project web page is now live at: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ksh93-integration/ We have an overview of the project goals, pointers to the mailinglist (http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ksh93-integration-discuss/), the original ksh93 documentation

Re: [osol-discuss] Request for new forum: embedded-discuss

2006-05-02 Thread Darren Reed
Joerg Schilling wrote: Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (General discussions of cross-compilation is suitable for either of opensolaris-code or tools-discuss; potential platforms probably should start talking here; there are communities and projects associated with installation and pa

Re: [osol-discuss] [zfs-discuss] Best. Solaris Tees. Ever.

2006-05-02 Thread Bryan Cantrill
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 11:48:47AM -1000, David J. Orman wrote: > I'm not quite sure I understand the posting of advertisements for t-shirts > for sale by a private company to discussion lists. I don't see how this is > anything more than an advertisement for $25 dollar t-shirts. For those of u

Re: [osol-discuss] [zfs-discuss] Best. Solaris Tees. Ever.

2006-05-02 Thread David J. Orman
I'm not quite sure I understand the posting of advertisements for t-shirts for sale by a private company to discussion lists. I don't see how this is anything more than an advertisement for $25 dollar t-shirts. That being said, I somehow don't think "FSCK You" is going to go over well (just abo

[osol-discuss] [zfs-discuss] Best. Solaris Tees. Ever.

2006-05-02 Thread Bryan Cantrill
Sorry for the cross-posting, but I think the union of these lists will be interested in this. Joyent, a recent convert to Solaris (and ZFS in particular), has put together some fantastic T-shirts: http://flickr.com/photos/textdriveinc/139222094/ http://flickr.com/photos/textdriveinc/13922209

Re: [osol-discuss] Propose removing [] prefixes in Subject

2006-05-02 Thread James Carlson
For what it's worth, +1 from me to the original idea. I _hate_ the unnecessary glop that mailman is sticking in the subject line, and I have no problem at all using procmail to sort by Sender: and other header fields. Stephen Hahn writes: > Per-user is straightforward on the Mailman side, less

Re: [osol-discuss] re:live upgrade with zones

2006-05-02 Thread James Carlson
Zhisong Jin writes: > does anybody know if the current build 36 of > solaris express support live upgrade system with zones? No, it does not. -- James Carlson, KISS Network<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: OpenSolaris attacked by Novell]

2006-05-02 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Monday 01 May 2006 04:25 pm, Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote: > I belive this comment is about the following > > "As an example, when Red Hat released the sources to their Enterprise > Server, but didn't provide any of the Makefiles or configure scripts to > create them. Of course there is nothing

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: OpenSolaris attacked by Novell]

2006-05-02 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Darren Reed wrote: > Chris Ricker wrote: > >> On Mon, 1 May 2006, Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote: >> >> >> >>> I belive this comment is about the following >>> >>> "As an example, when Red Hat released the sources to their Enterprise >>> Server, but d

Re: [osol-discuss] Community/Project Proposals Update: 5/1/06

2006-05-02 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Darren J Moffat wrote: Jim Grisanzio wrote: Below is an update on the projects/communities proposed, approved, recently opened, or void since my last mail on 4/19. Jim *COMMUNITY PROPOSALS* Solaris Trusted Extensions Community * Proposed 4/14/06 by Glenn Faden * Community consensus: yes *

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: /usr/sbin/format: where is the -force flag?

2006-05-02 Thread Sarah Jelinek
Jürgen Keil wrote: this new "feature" (put in double quotes) was getting me in rage: 6194015 PSARC/2004/776 - Device in use checking for Solaris utilities What I normally do after Solaris installation is mirroring the boot disk via SVM. Sometimes I forget to reserve a small region on the disk

[osol-discuss] Re: [tools-linking] ld.so refuses to properly handle paths with colon

2006-05-02 Thread Rod Evans
Note: I'm moving this conversation over to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To follow up, please use tools-linking and drop opensolaris-discuss. Holger Berger wrote: > On 4/30/06, Rod Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The colon has been the standard separator of multiple pathnames within >> the link-editi

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [website-discuss] Re: Propose removing [] prefixes in Subject

2006-05-02 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On 5/2/06, Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As one of those who dissented from the change, I think it's a great idea to offer the subscribing user choice here. I had a brief write-up that detailed how to generally do this - but removed it before I posted my last message - but since others

[osol-discuss] Re: [website-discuss] Re: Propose removing [] prefixes in Subject

2006-05-02 Thread Stephen Hahn
* John Plocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-02 11:28]: > It sounds like there have been several strong -1's voiced about this > proposal, which should (according to the proposed governance rules) > derail this change. (Although, as I note below, the current proposal is no longer current, I d

Re: [osol-discuss] Propose removing [] prefixes in Subject

2006-05-02 Thread Stephen Hahn
* Justin Erenkrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-02 11:32]: > On 5/2/06, Stephen Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would very much like to eliminate the second and subsequent list > > name inclusions from subject lines. Are there a substantial number of > > people filtering on anything othe

Re: [osol-discuss] Propose removing [] prefixes in Subject

2006-05-02 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On 5/2/06, Stephen Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would very much like to eliminate the second and subsequent list name inclusions from subject lines. Are there a substantial number of people filtering on anything other than the first included list name? (And have done so in an order-

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [website-discuss] Re: Propose removing [] prefixes in Subject

2006-05-02 Thread Darren Reed
John Plocher wrote: It sounds like there have been several strong -1's voiced about this proposal, which should (according to the proposed governance rules) derail this change. If there still is a strong desire for such behavior, then I propose extending the per-user mailman preferences to i

[osol-discuss] Re: [website-discuss] Re: Propose removing [] prefixes in Subject

2006-05-02 Thread John Plocher
It sounds like there have been several strong -1's voiced about this proposal, which should (according to the proposed governance rules) derail this change. If there still is a strong desire for such behavior, then I propose extending the per-user mailman preferences to include a "tag the [lis

[osol-discuss] Re: /usr/sbin/format: where is the -force flag?

2006-05-02 Thread Jürgen Keil
> this new "feature" (put in double quotes) was getting me in rage: > > 6194015 PSARC/2004/776 - Device in use checking for Solaris utilities > > What I normally do after Solaris installation is mirroring the boot disk via > SVM. Sometimes I forget to reserve a small region on the disk for the

[osol-discuss] re:live upgrade with zones

2006-05-02 Thread Zhisong Jin
does anybody know if the current build 36 of solaris express support live upgrade system with zones? thanks. Jason ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [website-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Propose removing [] prefixes in Subject

2006-05-02 Thread Calum Benson
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 12:29 -0500, James Dickens wrote: > if those people that don't like the [ ] tags they can adjudst there > filters to remove them. None of the mail clients I use allow you to do that, and I'm not going to change to a different one just so I can start reading the important par

Re: [osol-discuss] Propose removing [] prefixes in Subject

2006-05-02 Thread Moazam Raja
[as mentioned earlier] I filter via the recipient field (to, cc, bcc), that way if the subject header changes, my filters still work. Works great. In terms of order, whichever filter has higher priority/level will filter first (on my setup). -Moazam On May 2, 2006, at 10:37 AM, Stephen H

Re: [website-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Propose removing [] prefixes in Subject

2006-05-02 Thread Stephen Hahn
(One omitted acknowledgment from my mail.) * Egregious example subject lines were graciously provided by Ian Collins. -- Stephen Hahn, PhD Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ ___ opensolaris-d

Re: Main OS/Net repository - based on "Subversion" or "Mercurial" ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread Darren Reed
Holger Berger wrote: On 5/2/06, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... For example Teamware needs ws(1) and wx(1) utility software to be useful for ON development on a large scale but you can cope without them. Also I'm sure I heard somewhere else that there was a pretty darn large ot

Re: [osol-discuss] Propose removing [] prefixes in Subject

2006-05-02 Thread Stephen Hahn
* Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-01 19:25]: > Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > > >On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 20:39, Roland Mainz wrote: > > > > > >>The tagging is enabled by default in the mailman configuation > >>intentionally. Think about it: If it is so bad - why did the mailman > >>people turn i

[osol-discuss] Re: SOSUG #7 - Call for speakers

2006-05-02 Thread Rodrick Brown
Does the topic have to be Sun/Solaris Centric? Or would any UNIX related technology talks be allowed such as an authors of well known opensource applications giving overviews? On 5/2/06, Alan Hargreaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In order to try to stop the last minute decisions of when to have

Re: Main OS/Net repository - based on "Subversion" or "Mercurial" ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 15:10 +0200, Holger Berger wrote: > Almost no utility software > supports Mercurial which will not be very attractive to developers. Hi, Holger - Of course the third party tools that support Mercurial are not yet as widespread and diverse as those around Subversion or CVS.

Re: [osol-discuss] Propose removing [] prefixes in Subject

2006-05-02 Thread James Dickens
On 5/2/06, Justin Erenkrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/1/06, Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The best thing a list can do is to stick with whatever choice > it makes when it is first created, for better or worse. The > worst you can do is to decide to change the behaviour at > som

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: OpenSolaris attacked by Novell]

2006-05-02 Thread Darren Reed
Chris Ricker wrote: On Mon, 1 May 2006, Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote: I belive this comment is about the following "As an example, when Red Hat released the sources to their Enterprise Server, but didn't provide any of the Makefiles or configure scripts to create them. Of course there is n

Re: Subversion in Solaris / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On 4/9/06, Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BTW: When subversion will become a part of Solaris I'd like to propose a project which looks at some platform-specific optimisations for subversion, including some hacks to libsvn_wc (the code which handles the subversion working copy) to make it

Re: [osol-discuss] Propose removing [] prefixes in Subject

2006-05-02 Thread Paul Jakma
On Tue, 2 May 2006, Ian Collins wrote: You can also simply do what I've just done and change your filters to use 'To' and 'CC'. Filtering on the 'X-BeenThere' header which mailman includes would probably be more robust. regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] Request for new forum: embedded-discuss

2006-05-02 Thread Darren Reed
Joerg Schilling wrote: Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It occurred to me today that there is overlap but it isn't perhaps a complete overlap as one might tend to believe. The embedded community isn't just "appliances". It is also many other things - for examples, cars. Wouldn't it be

Re: [osol-discuss] Propose removing [] prefixes in Subject

2006-05-02 Thread Paul Jakma
On Mon, 1 May 2006, Darren Reed wrote: If/when it becomes trivial to subscribe a different alias to each forum (to aid IMAP mailbox delivery) in opensolaris.org, this would be fine. Read-only NNTP gating would be nice too. regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] Propose removing [] prefixes in Subject

2006-05-02 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On 5/1/06, Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The best thing a list can do is to stick with whatever choice it makes when it is first created, for better or worse. The worst you can do is to decide to change the behaviour at some point in the future. +1. -- justin

[osol-discuss] xattrs (was Re: Subversion in Solaris...)

2006-05-02 Thread Peter Tribble
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 15:32, Darren J Moffat wrote: > Peter Tribble wrote: > > I trialled xattrs on a couple of little projects, just for > > storing metadata about files, and found runat very useful > > for development and debugging. I think it should be kept. > > Right but thats what it is a dev

Re: important closed binaries (Was Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software)

2006-05-02 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Dennis Clarke wrote: >> Here is the list of closed binaries for Sparc and i386/x86/AMD : >> >> http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/OpenSolaris/i386-closed.list >> >> and >> >> http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/OpenSolaris/sparc-closed.list >> >> So which ones are show stoppers ? > > I'd

[osol-discuss] Re: Propose removing [] prefixes in Subject

2006-05-02 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 01:50, Alan DuBoff wrote: > If you could somehow convince me that cross-posted messages are good, I might > agree.;-) if you could convince me that discussions never need to cross predefined cubbyhole boundaries and that we could get all the boundaries right in advance I mig

Re: [osol-discuss] /usr/sbin/format: where is the -force flag?

2006-05-02 Thread Rainer Orth
Sarah Jelinek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am the developer who did the work for this feature. We originally had > a force flag planned for all the utilities that were modified to enable > in use checking. However, the force flag was an area of much debate and > in the end we removed it. We

Re: Main OS/Net repository - based on "Subversion" or "Mercurial" ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread Dick Davies
On 02/05/06, Holger Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/2/06, Dick Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02/05/06, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Also I'm sure I heard somewhere else that there was a pretty darn large > > other open source project also moving to Mercurial, c

Re: Subversion in Solaris / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread Robert Thurlow
Darren J Moffat wrote: Let me clarify what I meant by my statement. I think runat(1) is a good debug/development tool. I don't believe that it is useful for building applications on top of, if you need to build apps then use openat(2) and friends not shell scripting. I agree with that. Ro

Re: Subversion in Solaris / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread Darren J Moffat
Robert Thurlow wrote: I don't agree with Darren that runat is a problem, and it's in the wild, so I don't expect it to go anywhere. Let me clarify what I meant by my statement. I think runat(1) is a good debug/development tool. I don't believe that it is useful for building applications on t

Re: Subversion in Solaris / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread Robert Thurlow
Holger Berger wrote: For which specific application was the XATTR API designed for? To permit Solaris to provide SMB/CIFS "named streams" or subfiles, also similar to the resource fork files have on MacOS. This was adopted by NFS Version 4, as well. They are not meant to resemble things like

Re: Subversion in Solaris / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread Darren J Moffat
Peter Tribble wrote: On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 14:31, Darren J Moffat wrote: IMO runat(1) should never have been shipped it presents a "strange" view of the world and an illusion that something outside of the creating application can and should be able to manipulate the xattrs (which IMO is not n

Re: Subversion in Solaris / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread Peter Tribble
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 14:31, Darren J Moffat wrote: > IMO runat(1) should never have been shipped it presents a "strange" view > of the world and an illusion that something outside of the creating > application can and should be able to manipulate the xattrs (which IMO > is not necessarily a de

Re: Main OS/Net repository - based on "Subversion" or "Mercurial" ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread Chris Ricker
On Tue, 2 May 2006, John Levon wrote: > On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 03:49:10PM +0200, Holger Berger wrote: > > > On 5/2/06, Dick Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On 02/05/06, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> Also I'm sure I heard somewhere else that there was a pretty dar

Re: Main OS/Net repository - based on "Subversion" or "Mercurial" ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread John Levon
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 03:49:10PM +0200, Holger Berger wrote: > On 5/2/06, Dick Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 02/05/06, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Also I'm sure I heard somewhere else that there was a pretty darn large > >> other open source project also moving

Re: Subversion in Solaris / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread Darren J Moffat
Holger Berger wrote: For which specific application was the XATTR API designed for? JDS? If I remember my history correctly a large part of the driver for this was a previous project at Sun that was attempting to do CIFS support - more than that I can't say partly due to poor memory on my par

Re: Main OS/Net repository - based on "Subversion" or "Mercurial" ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread Holger Berger
On 5/2/06, Dick Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 02/05/06, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also I'm sure I heard somewhere else that there was a pretty darn large > other open source project also moving to Mercurial, can't remember which > one. Xen. Let me guess: Someone from

Re: Subversion in Solaris / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread Holger Berger
On 5/2/06, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Holger Berger wrote: > On 5/2/06, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Holger Berger wrote: >> >> > The problem I see that these "extended attributes" are inaccessible >> > from within normal applications and the provided kludges such

Re: Main OS/Net repository - based on "Subversion" or "Mercurial" ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread Dick Davies
On 02/05/06, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Also I'm sure I heard somewhere else that there was a pretty darn large other open source project also moving to Mercurial, can't remember which one. Xen. -- Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns http://number9.hellooperator.net

Re: Main OS/Net repository - based on "Subversion" or "Mercurial" ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread Holger Berger
On 5/2/06, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Holger Berger wrote: >> > What does that mean for "ON" - will the main OS/Net repository on >> > opensolaris.org be based on Subversion or on Mercurial ? >> >> Mercurial. > > I think this choice is very very bad. Almost no utility software > s

Re: Subversion in Solaris / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread Darren J Moffat
Holger Berger wrote: On 5/2/06, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Holger Berger wrote: > The problem I see that these "extended attributes" are inaccessible > from within normal applications and the provided kludges such as > runat(1) are not usable outside a lab environment. First at

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [Fwd: RFE: Replace /usr/css/bin/make with

2006-05-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
Nikolay Molchanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Which features do you like to add? > > > > > We plan to start with Mozilla build, and to define the list of features, > that we need in dmake to build Mozilla without changes in makefiles. If you plan to go this way, I recommend to start the way

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: OpenSolaris attacked by Novell]

2006-05-02 Thread Chris Ricker
On Mon, 1 May 2006, Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote: > I belive this comment is about the following > > "As an example, when Red Hat released the sources to their Enterprise > Server, but didn't provide any of the Makefiles or configure scripts to > create them. Of course there is nothing in the GPL

Re: Subversion in Solaris / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread Holger Berger
On 5/2/06, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Holger Berger wrote: > The problem I see that these "extended attributes" are inaccessible > from within normal applications and the provided kludges such as > runat(1) are not usable outside a lab environment. First at all these > extended a

Re: Main OS/Net repository - based on "Subversion" or "Mercurial" ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread Darren J Moffat
Holger Berger wrote: > What does that mean for "ON" - will the main OS/Net repository on > opensolaris.org be based on Subversion or on Mercurial ? Mercurial. I think this choice is very very bad. Almost no utility software supports Mercurial which will not be very attractive to developers. Yo

Re: Subversion in Solaris / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread Darren J Moffat
Holger Berger wrote: The problem I see that these "extended attributes" are inaccessible from within normal applications and the provided kludges such as runat(1) are not usable outside a lab environment. First at all these extended attribute files need to be made accessible in the normal file s

Re: Subversion in Solaris / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread Holger Berger
On 5/2/06, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Holger Berger wrote: > On 4/10/06, Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Stephen Hahn wrote: >> > One of the upcoming submissions for the freeware consolidation >> will be >> > to ensure that Subversion and Mercurial are available in

Re: Subversion in Solaris / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread Darren J Moffat
Holger Berger wrote: On 4/10/06, Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Stephen Hahn wrote: > One of the upcoming submissions for the freeware consolidation will be > to ensure that Subversion and Mercurial are available in one or more > of the standard installation scenarios. Where wi

Re: Main OS/Net repository - based on "Subversion" or "Mercurial" ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread Holger Berger
On 4/28/06, Stephen Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Roland Mainz wrote: > Stephen Hahn wrote: > >> The plan of record for hosting source code is to support Subversion >> and (now) Mercurial as a per-repository choice, so there's no freeze >> out for projects that believe they require Subversion

Re: [osol-discuss] ld.so refuses to properly handle paths with colon

2006-05-02 Thread Holger Berger
On 4/30/06, Rod Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The colon has been the standard separator of multiple pathnames within the link-editing environment since Solaris 2.0 (it was even used in Solaris 1 (4.x) if I recall). Is there a way to override, replace or escape the ':' separator? Holger

Re: Subversion in Solaris / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread Holger Berger
On 4/10/06, Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Stephen Hahn wrote: > One of the upcoming submissions for the freeware consolidation will be > to ensure that Subversion and Mercurial are available in one or more > of the standard installation scenarios. Where will subversion be located

[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris on Intel Macs??

2006-05-02 Thread Jürgen Keil
> Would someone be willing to help me understand what I > need to download and to do to get Solaris installed > on a Mac Intel ? I've installed it like this: I prepared an USB 2.0 Solaris x86 boot HDD for the intel imac: - I got an empty USB 2.0 HDD, attached to a non intel mac Solaris x86 syst

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-05-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Dennis Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Of course, see e.g. the discussion related to the broken Sun tar ACL format. > > > > Slightly off-topic but you reminded me that we need an update to star at > Blastwave that will not signal a "sparse" notice for every file that one > copies or tars f

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Build times for Open Solaris....

2006-05-02 Thread Holger Berger
On 4/18/06, Menno Lageman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Holger Berger wrote: > > I think one part of this jigsaw is the disk bottleneck. If you build > ON on a tmpfs volume you should have a far better CPU utilisation on > Niagara. Nothing beats real data, so I ran a nightly on a tmpfs file system

Re: [osol-discuss] ld.so refuses to properly handle paths with colon

2006-05-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
Robert Lunnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, this is another case In short you cannot dlopen a library with a : in > the pathname I see no reason for this limitation. Does anybody know more about this? Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL

Re: [osol-discuss] Request for new forum: embedded-discuss

2006-05-02 Thread Darren J Moffat
Joerg Schilling wrote: Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It occurred to me today that there is overlap but it isn't perhaps a complete overlap as one might tend to believe. The embedded community isn't just "appliances". It is also many other things - for examples, cars. Wouldn't it be c

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: YaST on Solaris 10

2006-05-02 Thread Calum Benson
On 1 May 2006, at 18:09, Matthew Gardiner wrote: Not quite a huge problem; lets get the basics working; how about a network control tool? allow one to create, bring up and shut down connections as easy as one can do on Fedora? We're in the process of porting gnome-system-tools to Solaris... p

Re: [osol-discuss] Request for new forum: embedded-discuss

2006-05-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Right. Some cars can have as many as 5 or more seperate computers. Depends on what you understand by "computers". A big mercedes has more than 30 "computers" only inside the cabin (not countiong the dashboard). Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home)

Re: [osol-discuss] Request for new forum: embedded-discuss

2006-05-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
Artem Kachitchkine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Wouldn't it be cool if the OS behind your car's electronics was > > Solaris > > That would be terrible. I'd rather prefer that the software in my car > was simple enough for its correctness to be formally provable. As well > as testable with 10

Re: [osol-discuss] Request for new forum: embedded-discuss

2006-05-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It occurred to me today that there is overlap but it isn't perhaps > a complete overlap as one might tend to believe. > > The embedded community isn't just "appliances". > It is also many other things - for examples, cars. > > Wouldn't it be cool if the OS

Re: [osol-discuss] YaST on Solaris 10

2006-05-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Roberto J. Dohnert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any plans to port Yast to Solaris 10 since it is an Open Source > piece of software. I am just wondering how much of a technical burden it > would be to do a port. Do you believe that a tool that is specific to many Suse deviations i

Re: [osol-discuss] Community/Project Proposals Update: 5/1/06

2006-05-02 Thread Darren J Moffat
Jim Grisanzio wrote: Below is an update on the projects/communities proposed, approved, recently opened, or void since my last mail on 4/19. Jim *COMMUNITY PROPOSALS* Solaris Trusted Extensions Community * Proposed 4/14/06 by Glenn Faden * Community consensus: yes * CAB/OGB vote: no ± vote y

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-mktg] Upcoming Anniversary Activities for OpenSolaris User Groups

2006-05-02 Thread Darren J Moffat
Sara Dornsife wrote: Yes. We all should. But, we obviously can't buy every one of our 13,000 registered members a shirt and ship it to them. Although that would be nice, it's pretty cost prohibitive. If we made a special commemorative t-shirt and put it on the Sun open source cafepress store

CDDL & build environment (Was Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: OpenSolaris attacked by Novell])

2006-05-02 Thread Darren J Moffat
Joerg Schilling wrote: - But The GPL requires to publish scripts for the compilation (see GPL §3) in case you publish binaries. However it is unclear whether this includes Makefiles. But note that this only seem to apply for people who publish binaries created from GPLd s

important closed binaries (Was Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software)

2006-05-02 Thread Darren J Moffat
Dennis Clarke wrote: Here is the list of closed binaries for Sparc and i386/x86/AMD : http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/OpenSolaris/i386-closed.list and http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/OpenSolaris/sparc-closed.list So which ones are show stoppers ? I'd like to point out that all

Re: [osol-discuss] Request for new forum: embedded-discuss

2006-05-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (General discussions of cross-compilation is suitable for either of > > opensolaris-code or tools-discuss; potential platforms probably should > > start talking here; there are communities and projects associated with > > installation and packaging al