Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Casper . Dik
>Eric Enright wrote: > >> Given the option, I'll take gzip over bzip2 without consideration. >> Waiting a little extra time to receive the archive is far better than >> waiting a lot of extra time to unpack it. >> > >Exactly. >Only issue with the gzip binary shipping with Sun Solaris (10 03/05 and

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Joerg Schilling
Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michelle Olson wrote: > > Thanks for this message, really good to hear from you. > > I will ask the gatekeeper to make this change if there > > are more folks who prefer gzip to bzip2--you are the first to ask. > > What about providing both gzip and bzip2

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Joerg Schilling
Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Correct me if I am wrong... the 3K manual page archive for developers > has nothing todo with Solaris install... right ? > (And bzip2 on SPARC could be tweaked to run a little bit faster anyway). > > I vote to use bzip2 to compress all the developer source

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Casper . Dik
>On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Bruno Jargot wrote: > >> I think it's better to stick with bzip2 archives. They need less >> bandwidth and less room on disks. Using gzip again would be a step >> backwards. Really. > >I resepctfully disagree. Casper and I discussed this ages ago (I >forget exactly when); ap

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal -- Honeycomb Information and dev tools

2007-01-29 Thread Stephen Lau
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 11:37:55AM -0800, Peter Buckingham wrote: > Stephen Lau wrote: > >Are you intending to provide any source, or do any open development? > > The plan is to provide the SDK initially so that we establish the apis > that we use for use in other projects (eg. http://www.fedora.

Re: [osol-discuss] Status of Power PC port?

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Mainz
Dennis Clarke wrote: > > ken mays wrote: [snip] > >> 5. Support for PowerPC G4 to G5 (PPC750GX) > > > > Will Apple G3 machines still be supported ? > > probably not for a lng time Why (I still have the chance to get an older Apple G3-based IMac... question is whether it makes sense to buy i

Re: bzip2 performance on SPARC / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Eric Enright
On 1/29/07, Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Eric Enright wrote: > On 1/29/07, Bruno Jargot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1/29/07, Michelle Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Rich, [snip] > Waiting a little extra time to receive the archive is far better than > waiting a lot of

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Availability Suite

2007-01-29 Thread Eric Boutilier
Thanks, Jim. You have seconds. I'll contact you offline to get you set up. On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Jim Dunham wrote: Project Overview: I propose the creation of a project on opensolaris.org, to bring to the community two Solaris host-based data services; namely volume snapshot and volume replica

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Mainz
Eric Enright wrote: > On 1/29/07, Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Michelle Olson wrote: > > > Thanks for this message, really good to hear from you. > > > I will ask the gatekeeper to make this change if there > > > are more folks who prefer gzip to bzip2--you are the first to ask. > >

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: Availability Suite

2007-01-29 Thread Ben Rockwood
A very enthusiastic second! benr. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Eric Enright
On 1/29/07, Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michelle Olson wrote: > Thanks for this message, really good to hear from you. > I will ask the gatekeeper to make this change if there > are more folks who prefer gzip to bzip2--you are the first to ask. What about providing both gzip and bzip

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Eric Enright
On 1/29/07, Martin Bochnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Eric Enright wrote: > Given the option, I'll take gzip over bzip2 without consideration. > Waiting a little extra time to receive the archive is far better than > waiting a lot of extra time to unpack it. > Exactly. Only issue with the gzip

[osol-discuss] those sccs man pages

2007-01-29 Thread Michelle Olson
Hi Joerg, Actually, all the pages you were looking for (except sccs.1 and sccs-admin.1) were delivered in this drop. Prepend 'sccs-' to find them, sccs-cdc.1, sccs-comb.1, etc. As for sccs.1 we need to do some investigation, for sccs-admin.1 we think we have the investigation complete. Thanks

Re: [osol-discuss] Status of Power PC port?

2007-01-29 Thread Dennis Clarke
> ken mays wrote: >> >> What is the status of the Opensolaris Power PC port? >> Is the project >> still active? There were not any status reports or >> updates in the last >> months. >> >> Bruno >> - >> >> Cyril, PPC for Solaris community lead, can best answer >

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Rich Teer
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Eric Enright wrote: > Given the option, I'll take gzip over bzip2 without consideration. > Waiting a little extra time to receive the archive is far better than > waiting a lot of extra time to unpack it. Amen to that (and I have a reasonably fast 2.6 GHz Opteron CPU here)!

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Rich Teer
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Roland Mainz wrote: > > I resepctfully disagree. Casper and I discussed this ages ago (I > > forget exactly when); apparently the use of bzip archives is one > > reasons why installing Solaris takes so long. > > Correct me if I am wrong... the 3K manual page archive for deve

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Mainz
Bruno Jargot wrote: > On 1/29/07, Michelle Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for this message, really good to hear from you. I will ask the > > gatekeeper to make this change if there are more folks who prefer gzip to > > bzip2--you are the first to ask. > > I think it's better to stic

Sun Studio 11 tarball for OS/Net compressed with /usr/bin/compress / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Mainz
Stephen Lau wrote: > Michelle Olson wrote: > > Thanks for this message, really good to hear from you. > > I will ask the gatekeeper to make this change if there > > are more folks who prefer gzip to bzip2--you are the > > first to ask. > > My personal preference is for bzip2 - but that's just ca

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Mainz
Michelle Olson wrote: > Thanks for this message, really good to hear from you. > I will ask the gatekeeper to make this change if there > are more folks who prefer gzip to bzip2--you are the first to ask. What about providing both gzip and bzip2 tarballs ? Bye, Roland P.S.: Would it be pos

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Mainz
Martin Bochnig wrote: > Roland Mainz wrote: > >I vote to use bzip2 to compress all the developer sources... usually the > >disks are slower than uncompressing the tarball anyway... > > Not if the uncompressed archives are bigger than, say, 100MB. > Try it out on a U60 with 1x300MHz and let's see i

Re: [osol-discuss] Status of Power PC port?

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Mainz
ken mays wrote: > > What is the status of the Opensolaris Power PC port? > Is the project > still active? There were not any status reports or > updates in the last > months. > > Bruno > - > > Cyril, PPC for Solaris community lead, can best answer > that quest

bzip2 performance on SPARC / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Mainz
Eric Enright wrote: > On 1/29/07, Bruno Jargot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1/29/07, Michelle Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Rich, [snip] > Waiting a little extra time to receive the archive is far better than > waiting a lot of extra time to unpack it. Offtopic: Both gzip and bzip

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Martin Bochnig
Roland Mainz wrote: >I vote to use bzip2 to compress all the developer sources... usually the >disks are slower than uncompressing the tarball anyway... > > > Not if the uncompressed archives are bigger than, say, 100MB. Try it out on a U60 with 1x300MHz and let's see if your opinion has change

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Mainz
Martin Bochnig wrote: > Rich Teer wrote: > >On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Bruno Jargot wrote: > > > >>I think it's better to stick with bzip2 archives. They need less > >>bandwidth and less room on disks. Using gzip again would be a step > >>backwards. Really. > > > >I resepctfully disagree. Casper and I d

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Martin Bochnig
Eric Enright wrote: > Given the option, I'll take gzip over bzip2 without consideration. > Waiting a little extra time to receive the archive is far better than > waiting a lot of extra time to unpack it. > Exactly. Only issue with the gzip binary shipping with Sun Solaris (10 03/05 and earlier N

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Mainz
Rich Teer wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Bruno Jargot wrote: > > I think it's better to stick with bzip2 archives. They need less > > bandwidth and less room on disks. Using gzip again would be a step > > backwards. Really. > > I resepctfully disagree. Casper and I discussed this ages ago (I > for

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Eric Enright
On 1/29/07, Bruno Jargot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/29/07, Michelle Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Rich, > > Thanks for this message, really good to hear from you. I will ask the gatekeeper to make this change if there are more folks who prefer gzip to bzip2--you are the first to as

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Martin Bochnig
Rich Teer wrote: >On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Bruno Jargot wrote: > > > >>I think it's better to stick with bzip2 archives. They need less >>bandwidth and less room on disks. Using gzip again would be a step >>backwards. Really. >> >> > >I resepctfully disagree. Casper and I discussed this ages ag

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Rich Teer
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Bruno Jargot wrote: > I think it's better to stick with bzip2 archives. They need less > bandwidth and less room on disks. Using gzip again would be a step > backwards. Really. I resepctfully disagree. Casper and I discussed this ages ago (I forget exactly when); apparently

Re: [osol-discuss] An opensource Sparc system...

2007-01-29 Thread Martin Bochnig
Martin Bochnig wrote: >Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > >>Hi all, >> >>I did just have a very interesting discussion with a Chipdesigner from Berlin. >>He is interested in working on a complete OpenSource platform and he is >>looking >>for people who are interested in helping with this project. >>

Re: [osol-discuss] Status of Power PC port?

2007-01-29 Thread ken mays
What is the status of the Opensolaris Power PC port? Is the project still active? There were not any status reports or updates in the last months. Bruno - Cyril, PPC for Solaris community lead, can best answer that question over in the PowerPC discussions group

[osol-discuss] Re: ETA for SX:CR B56

2007-01-29 Thread Ben Rockwood
Er, I jumped the gun. I need SX:CR. B56 sources and archives are available, sure, but those have been available for some time in nightlies. So I'm still looking for an ETA on SX:CR B56 itself. Friday? Sooner? Will a case of beer smooth the process? :) benr. This message posted from op

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Status of Power PC port?

2007-01-29 Thread Bob Palowoda
> On 1/29/07, Bob Palowoda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What is the status of the Opensolaris Power PC > port? > > > Is the project > > > still active? There were not any status reports > or > > > updates in the last > > > months. > > > > > > > A better place for the question might be: > > > h

[osol-discuss] Re: ETA for SX:CR B56

2007-01-29 Thread Ben Rockwood
Thanks for the clarification Steve. I was about to have a heart attack. :) Incidentally, none of the putbacks were flagged as "Duckhorn". The big pieces were integrated as 3 separate PSARC's which I reported here: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=18813&tstart=0 Thanks for

Re: [osol-discuss] ETA for SX:CR B56

2007-01-29 Thread Stephen Lau
duckhorn went in, revision 3286:676ea7fe99f4 in the Hg repository. The reason it didn't show in the changelog is due to a bug in my delivery scripts which assumed two week build cycles. The holiday break caused my changelog generation to miss that week's worth of putbacks. cheers, steve Dic

Re: [osol-discuss] ETA for SX:CR B56

2007-01-29 Thread Dick Davies
It looks like Opensolaris b56 came out over the weekend: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/b56/on-changelog-b56.html Isn't it normally 2 weeks before that becomes SXCR? Incidentally, I hope I missed something, because I see no mention of duckhorn in that changelog On 29/01/07, Ben Rock

[osol-discuss] ETA for SX:CR B56

2007-01-29 Thread Ben Rockwood
Is there an ETA for SX:CR B56? I've got a lot of things on hold for this release. I know the B55 respin threw a wrench in the works, but any updates or best guesses as to when we'll see 56 would be appreciated. benr. This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Status of Power PC port?

2007-01-29 Thread Bruno Jargot
On 1/29/07, Bob Palowoda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the status of the Opensolaris Power PC port? > Is the project > still active? There were not any status reports or > updates in the last > months. > A better place for the question might be: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal -- Honeycomb Information and dev tools

2007-01-29 Thread Peter Buckingham
Richard Lowe wrote: I'd like to see more details first. Sources? continued development and work in the community? I'm not seeing much in the above (though maybe that's me being dense) that seems opensolaris related. We are neither a hosting service, nor a marketing organization... I underst

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal -- Honeycomb Information and dev tools

2007-01-29 Thread Peter Buckingham
Stephen Lau wrote: Are you intending to provide any source, or do any open development? The plan is to provide the SDK initially so that we establish the apis that we use for use in other projects (eg. http://www.fedora.info) Once we have some agreement on that we will look at opening up Ho

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal -- Honeycomb Information and dev tools

2007-01-29 Thread Richard Lowe
Peter Buckingham wrote: Hi All, Honeycomb is a unique archival storage product developed within Sun. It is built upon a clustered system and provides strong reliability guarantees for it's data storage (Write-Once, Read Many) and metadata. We (the development team) would like to start to pro

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal -- Honeycomb Information and dev tools

2007-01-29 Thread Stephen Lau
Peter Buckingham wrote: Hi All, Honeycomb is a unique archival storage product developed within Sun. It is built upon a clustered system and provides strong reliability guarantees for it's data storage (Write-Once, Read Many) and metadata. We (the development team) would like to start to pro

Re: [osol-discuss] Making automatic fresh installs easier

2007-01-29 Thread Stephen Lau
Tom Haynes wrote: Stephen Lau wrote: Tom Haynes wrote: Could we get links for the latest SUNWpro, SUNWonbld, and closed binaries added? That way, instead of having to know the date, we could automate pulling down the latest bits from the mecurial repository and also getting the matching bits

[osol-discuss] Project Proposal -- Honeycomb Information and dev tools

2007-01-29 Thread Peter Buckingham
Hi All, Honeycomb is a unique archival storage product developed within Sun. It is built upon a clustered system and provides strong reliability guarantees for it's data storage (Write-Once, Read Many) and metadata. We (the development team) would like to start to provide information about t

[osol-discuss] Re: Status of Power PC port?

2007-01-29 Thread Bob Palowoda
> What is the status of the Opensolaris Power PC port? > Is the project > still active? There were not any status reports or > updates in the last > months. > A better place for the question might be: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=5 or check out the ppc community pages: http

Re: [osol-discuss] Making automatic fresh installs easier

2007-01-29 Thread Richard Lowe
Tom Haynes wrote: Stephen Lau wrote: Tom Haynes wrote: Could we get links for the latest SUNWpro, SUNWonbld, and closed binaries added? That way, instead of having to know the date, we could automate pulling down the latest bits from the mecurial repository and also getting the matching bits

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: SXCR b55b - issues with gnome-volume-manager?

2007-01-29 Thread Artem Kachitchkine
I'd love to know how gnome-volume-manager now is started? If anyone could enlighten me I'd be most thankful. AFAIK /usr/share/gnome/autostart/gnome-volume-manager.desktop -Artem. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Making automatic fresh installs easier

2007-01-29 Thread Tom Haynes
Stephen Lau wrote: Tom Haynes wrote: Could we get links for the latest SUNWpro, SUNWonbld, and closed binaries added? That way, instead of having to know the date, we could automate pulling down the latest bits from the mecurial repository and also getting the matching bits needed to do a full

Re: [osol-discuss] CVS Meta Data included in source display

2007-01-29 Thread Stephen Lau
You would be better off asking the opengrok-discuss mailing list. cheers, steve Bruce Furber wrote: I have OpenGrok installed on Suse SLES10 It does not seem to be recognizing that the SRC_ROOT is a CVS repository Search return file names with the like this Util.java,v with the ,v and the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Stephen Lau
Michelle Olson wrote: Hi Rich, Thanks for this message, really good to hear from you. I will ask the gatekeeper to make this change if there are more folks who prefer gzip to bzip2--you are the first to ask. Regards, MIchelle This message posted from opensolaris.org _

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Rich Teer
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Michelle Olson wrote: > I like really this, you rock. I should know the answer, but I > honestly need to dbl-check as you are the first to republish. Thank > you, because this makes all the work worth it, to see the pages out > there in a new way immediately. IANAL, but I th

Re: [osol-discuss] Making automatic fresh installs easier

2007-01-29 Thread Stephen Lau
Tom Haynes wrote: Could we get links for the latest SUNWpro, SUNWonbld, and closed binaries added? That way, instead of having to know the date, we could automate pulling down the latest bits from the mecurial repository and also getting the matching bits needed to do a full build. That way,

[osol-discuss] Status of Power PC port?

2007-01-29 Thread Bruno Jargot
What is the status of the Opensolaris Power PC port? Is the project still active? There were not any status reports or updates in the last months. Bruno ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Man Page for fssnap_ufs has problems with example 4

2007-01-29 Thread Lars Tunkrans
O.kI have entered the bug report. //Lars This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Bruno Jargot
On 1/29/07, Michelle Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Rich, Thanks for this message, really good to hear from you. I will ask the gatekeeper to make this change if there are more folks who prefer gzip to bzip2--you are the first to ask. I think it's better to stick with bzip2 archives. Th

[osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Michelle Olson
Hi Joerg, Just talked to Bonnie, this was an oversight. We are still working on the list of SCCS related man pages, so they missed this drop. Thanks for asking about these, I appreciate your help to make sure the pages you need are made available. Regards, Michelle This message posted from

[osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Michelle Olson
Hi Rich, Thanks for this message, really good to hear from you. I will ask the gatekeeper to make this change if there are more folks who prefer gzip to bzip2--you are the first to ask. Regards, MIchelle This message posted from opensolaris.org __

[osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Michelle Olson
Hi Dennis, I like really this, you rock. I should know the answer, but I honestly need to dbl-check as you are the first to republish. Thank you, because this makes all the work worth it, to see the pages out there in a new way immediately. Regards, Michelle This message posted from openso

[osol-discuss] Re: Man Page for fssnap_ufs has problems with example 4

2007-01-29 Thread Michelle Olson
Hi Lars, Thanks for catching this issue and reporting it, I'll forward this on for filing or you can feel free to file a bug under category Solaris Man Pages at http://bugs.opensolaris.org/ using the 'submit a bug' link. Thanks, Michelle This message posted from opensolaris.org