Re: [osol-discuss] What happened to genunix.org?

2012-02-01 Thread Shawn Walker
On 02/01/12 12:44, Will Fiveash wrote: On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 10:16:10AM -0800, Shawn Walker wrote: On 02/01/12 10:06, Cathleen Reiher wrote: I had some troubleshooting material about the Solaris CIFS project published on genunix.org. I tried to get to it yesterday, and it's vanished

Re: [osol-discuss] What happened to genunix.org?

2012-02-01 Thread Shawn Walker
On 02/01/12 10:06, Cathleen Reiher wrote: I had some troubleshooting material about the Solaris CIFS project published on genunix.org. I tried to get to it yesterday, and it's vanished! Is there any way for me to retrieve my content so that I can publish it in an alternate way? Thanks! You can

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris 11 install trouble, NVIDIA

2011-11-14 Thread Shawn Walker
On 11/10/11 18:09, Paul Gress wrote: Following previous messages, to get Solaris Express 11 updated I had to run: pkg uninstall 'pkg://opensolaris.org/*' \ > 'pkg://contrib.opensolaris.org/*' \ > 'pkg://jucr.opensolaris.org/*' \ > 'pkg://Multimedia/*' \ > 'pkg://kdeips-dev/*' \ > 'pkg://ips

Re: [osol-discuss] pfexec does not work any longer

2011-11-11 Thread Shawn Walker
On 11/11/11 10:55, Ian Collins wrote: On 11/12/11 06:52 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 11/11/11 09:37, Andrew Watkins wrote: Now on Solaris 11 it does not: == grep andrew /etc/user_attr andrewprofiles=Primary Administrator;roles=root Solaris 11 no longer include

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris 11 - The First Cloud OS

2011-11-10 Thread Shawn Walker
On 11/10/11 02:48, Rob McMahon wrote: On 09/11/2011 22:29, Shawn Walker wrote: I suggest someone adds a note on how to find and remove problematic opensolaris.org packages. I'm sure anyone who has a system which started life as an OpenSolaris box with have some. Just for reference for

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris 11 - The First Cloud OS

2011-11-09 Thread Shawn Walker
On 11/09/11 14:22, Ian Collins wrote: On 11/10/11 11:17 AM, Shawn Walker wrote: On 11/09/11 13:48, Ian Collins wrote: So it does. I also had to remove wine, in response to pfexec pkg uninstall openoffice Creating Plan - pkg uninstall: The requested change to the system attempts to install

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris 11 - The First Cloud OS

2011-11-09 Thread Shawn Walker
On 11/09/11 13:48, Ian Collins wrote: On 11/10/11 10:08 AM, Shawn Walker wrote: On 11/09/11 13:03, Ian Collins wrote: On 11/10/11 09:46 AM, Shawn Walker wrote: Try: pfexec pkg update '*@latest' That will tell the package system that you're trying to update to the latest

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris 11 - The First Cloud OS

2011-11-09 Thread Shawn Walker
On 11/09/11 13:09, Ian Collins wrote: ... So there isn't an OpenOffice package for Solaris 11? At this time, there are no native OpenOffice packages available for Solaris 11. However, the tarball version available from openoffice.org should work just fine. -Shawn _

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris 11 - The First Cloud OS

2011-11-09 Thread Shawn Walker
On 11/09/11 13:03, Ian Collins wrote: On 11/10/11 09:46 AM, Shawn Walker wrote: On 11/09/11 12:39, Ian Collins wrote: On 11/10/11 07:13 AM, Cindy Swearingen wrote: Hi Brian, Try this one: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E23824_01/html/E24456/upgrade-1.html The main OS 11 library

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris 11 - The First Cloud OS

2011-11-09 Thread Shawn Walker
On 11/09/11 12:39, Ian Collins wrote: On 11/10/11 07:13 AM, Cindy Swearingen wrote: Hi Brian, Try this one: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E23824_01/html/E24456/upgrade-1.html The main OS 11 library (English) is here: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E23824_01/index.html Let us know h

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris 11 - The First Cloud OS

2011-11-09 Thread Shawn Walker
On 11/09/11 11:11, Ian Collins wrote: On 11/10/11 07:13 AM, Cindy Swearingen wrote: Hi Brian, Try this one: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E23824_01/html/E24456/upgrade-1.html The main OS 11 library (English) is here: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E23824_01/index.html Let us know h

Re: [osol-discuss] Trying to install packages in Solaris 11 EA

2011-11-08 Thread Shawn Walker
On 11/08/11 05:38, Jordi wrote: Hi all, I'm plying with Solaris 11 EA, but I'm getting all the time this errors when I'm triying to install some package: jespasac@solaris11ea:~$ sudo pkg install pkg:/slim_install@0.1-0.151.0.1 Creating Plan | pkg install: No matching version of slim_install can

Re: [osol-discuss] pkg unexpectedly dies.

2011-11-07 Thread Shawn Walker
On 10/22/11 12:47, Aleksey Cheusov wrote: Hello. I'm trying to remove gnome packages recursively on OI_151. pkg dies unexpectedly. See below. It recommends to register bug at http://defect.opensolaris.org but I'm not sure illumos and openindiana projects still use opensolaris.org site and its B

Re: [osol-discuss] New update of Solaris 11, how is it?

2011-10-10 Thread Shawn Walker
On 10/10/11 11:45, Orvar Korvar wrote: Regarding Containers, are they sparse yet? And as someone pointed out, S11 is coming in november. http://www.oracle.com/webapps/events/ns/EventsDetail.jsp?p_eventId=140654&src=7255745&src=7255745&Act=27 Solaris 11 does not support sparse zones. My unders

Re: [osol-discuss] IPS publisher help

2011-04-26 Thread Shawn Walker
On 04/26/11 08:38 AM, Andre Lue wrote: Building an ips image, I start from snv_134 http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev. I then upgrade this to illumos bits from a local nightly illumos repo. What I don't understand is why no update will take place from snv_134 to snv_148/illumos nightly unless I a

Re: [osol-discuss] IPS: package versioning

2011-04-21 Thread Shawn Walker
On 04/21/11 01:05 PM, M I wrote: Fair enough, Shawn. Up until now, our Solaris driver builds had version numbers like 1.00a, 1.00b, etc. but for future builds we will look at changing the version numbers to something like 1.00.0, 1.00.1, etc. We wanted alphanumeric support so that we could c

Re: [osol-discuss] IPS: package versioning

2011-04-21 Thread Shawn Walker
On 04/21/11 11:36 AM, M I wrote: I was able to create an IPS server for our out-of-box driver that allows our test engineers to download/install it to their test systems. One problem I am having is that our out-of-box driver version numbers are alpha-numeric. Unfortunately IPS only allows st

Re: [osol-discuss] How do I remove a package from my repository?

2011-03-03 Thread Shawn Walker
- sik3...@yahoo.com wrote: > Creating a custom repository I have come across the need to remove a > package. Can someone say how I would remove a package from a local > repository? There's no tool to do this available yet (I'm actually in the process of writing it). With that said, you just

Re: [osol-discuss] IPS question?

2011-03-03 Thread Shawn Walker
- sik3...@yahoo.com wrote: > Hi Shawn, > > Stuck a bit further down the road. I added the following packages to > satisfy some other dependencies and now pkg.depotd crashes on a > --rebuild. > ... > pkg://opensolaris.org/SUNWapr13@1.3.9,5.11-0.133:20100216T061634Z > Traceback (most recent ca

Re: [osol-discuss] IPS question?

2011-03-02 Thread Shawn Walker
On 03/ 2/11 06:51 AM, Andre Lue wrote: Hi Shawn, Thanks for the reply. The cmd below returns pkg install -nv SUNWcs@0.5.11,5.11-0.134 consolidation/osnet/osnet-incorporation@0.5.11,5.11-0.134 system/library library/zlib system/zones library/libxml2 system/kernel library/math runtime/perl-584

Re: [osol-discuss] IPS question?

2011-03-01 Thread Shawn Walker
On 03/ 1/11 03:40 PM, Andre Lue wrote: Hi Shawn, Thanks for the reply. I got a bit further pulling back packages and making own repository. However I am not sure what is missing at this stage. I have verified all the requires on this list are in the repo. Any help is greatly appreciated. pk

Re: [osol-discuss] IPS question?

2011-02-16 Thread Shawn Walker
On 02/12/11 04:38 PM, Andre Lue wrote: if I wish to build an image from openindiana.org, as such pkg image-create -F -a openindiana.org=http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev /image doing a package install of pkg install SUNWcs returns the error Creating Plan -pkg: No version of SUNWcsl can be installe

Re: [osol-discuss] unable to install pkg due to dependancies

2011-01-31 Thread Shawn Walker
- solar...@gmail.com wrote: > hello all, > i recently upgraded from b111 to b134, but i hve a strange problem to > install new pkgs: > henry@electre:~$ pfexec pkg install rdesktop > Creating Plan \Planning for install failed: > Use -v option for more details > > > pkg: No version of desktop/

Re: [osol-discuss] errors from update-refresh.sh cron job

2011-01-24 Thread Shawn Walker
On 01/22/11 05:17 PM, Bill Shannon wrote: Any idea what causes this? Your "cron" job on datsunx /usr/lib/update-manager/update-refresh.sh produced the following output: /usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk

Re: [osol-discuss] songbird bug

2010-12-08 Thread Shawn Walker
On 12/ 8/10 11:23 AM, Mike DeMarco wrote: When I upgraded from b134 to b151a Songbird hit a bug that makes it play the second song over and over again. I tried to go into the b134 repository and download that version but even though I as in the 134 repository my system kept installing from the

Re: [osol-discuss] songbird bug

2010-12-08 Thread Shawn Walker
On 12/ 8/10 01:13 PM, Paul Gress wrote: On 12/ 8/10 02:23 PM, Mike DeMarco wrote: When I upgraded from b134 to b151a Songbird hit a bug that makes it play the second song over and over again. I tried to go into the b134 repository and download that version but even though I as in the 134 rep

Re: [osol-discuss] intel wifi link 1000 driver

2010-12-02 Thread Shawn Walker
On 12/ 2/10 02:51 PM, Timmy Ewell wrote: Hello again. Just to clarify, I've been researching the answer for the last several months. I'm guessing the card is too new for Intel to release the source for the driver and the iwlwifi project is a work around. I normally don't post in forums for help

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem upgrading b134 to solaris11 express

2010-11-30 Thread Shawn Walker
On 11/30/10 02:07 AM, Chris Gerhard wrote: On 11/29/10 20:00, Shawn Walker wrote: On 11/26/10 06:48 AM, Chris Gerhard wrote: On 11/23/10 18:42, Shawn Walker wrote: On 11/23/10 09:58 AM, Chris Gerhard wrote: Is there a way to list packages that are going to cause problems? The upgrade I have

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem upgrading b134 to solaris11 express

2010-11-29 Thread Shawn Walker
On 11/26/10 06:48 AM, Chris Gerhard wrote: On 11/23/10 18:42, Shawn Walker wrote: On 11/23/10 09:58 AM, Chris Gerhard wrote: Is there a way to list packages that are going to cause problems? The upgrade I have just done appears to have completed but when booted show it still on 134b/ No

Re: [osol-discuss] How stop software autobooting?

2010-11-29 Thread Shawn Walker
On 11/29/10 10:19 AM, Orvar Korvar wrote: When I login I see several instances of VirtualBox starting. I dont want that. How can I stop them from booting? After logging in, close all open windows, and then: * go to the Applications menu at the top-left corner * click 'Run Application' * type

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem upgrading b134 to solaris11 express

2010-11-23 Thread Shawn Walker
On 11/23/10 09:58 AM, Chris Gerhard wrote: Is there a way to list packages that are going to cause problems? The upgrade I have just done appears to have completed but when booted show it still on 134b/ No, because that package system doesn't know what packages are a "problem". The package

Re: [osol-discuss] upgrade woes, snv_132 -> snv_147 -> snv_149

2010-11-22 Thread Shawn Walker
On 11/22/10 04:18 AM, Ken Berry wrote: Hi Shawn I am having the similar problem. laptop at snv-148 use GUI Package Manager This is an Live Image. The install operation can't be performed I can OpenConnect or Punchin VPN to Oracle in UK Where is the best place to find the solution? In your

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem upgrading b134 to solaris11 express

2010-11-19 Thread Shawn Walker
On 11/19/10 05:48 PM, Steven Acres wrote: On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Shawn Walker mailto:shawn.wal...@oracle.com>> wrote: On 11/19/10 04:39 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: On 11/19/10 04:08 PM, Steven Acres wrote: ... Specifically for Shawn: Isn't ther

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem upgrading b134 to solaris11 express

2010-11-19 Thread Shawn Walker
On 11/19/10 04:39 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: On 11/19/10 04:08 PM, Steven Acres wrote: ... Specifically for Shawn: Isn't there somewhere that one of these folks can file a bug report on this? Seems there is a dep resolving issue with the pkg manager. Dependency resolution is working exact

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem upgrading b134 to solaris11 express

2010-11-19 Thread Shawn Walker
On 11/19/10 04:08 PM, Steven Acres wrote: ... Specifically for Shawn: Isn't there somewhere that one of these folks can file a bug report on this? Seems there is a dep resolving issue with the pkg manager. Dependency resolution is working exactly as it is supposed to. However, the error messag

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem upgrading b134 to solaris11 express

2010-11-19 Thread Shawn Walker
On 11/19/10 11:30 AM, Jose Chung wrote: Hi, I've got the same problem. After upgrading to 134b as per the http://blogs.sun.com/observatory/entry/upgrading_from_opensolaris_2009_06 instructions I've hit a brick wall. Here's some output; # pkg publisher PUBLISHER TY

Re: [osol-discuss] meld - missing a dependency

2010-11-18 Thread Shawn Walker
On 11/18/10 05:49 AM, Paul Griffith wrote: FYI Just for the record, I filed a bug report. I just installed meld, but it refuses to run, shouldn't Package Manager pull in any dependencies meld needs to run. Yes, and it will if the package declares them. It can't install dependencies it

Re: [osol-discuss] Can not use my own Solaris Express repository

2010-11-18 Thread Shawn Walker
On 11/17/10 11:51 PM, Willi Burmeister wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to use the Solaris 11 express repository in my local network without success. Here what I have done: Depot server - Updated to Solaris 11 express by hand % head -1 /etc/release Oracle Solaris 11 Express

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem upgrading b134 to solaris11 express

2010-11-16 Thread Shawn Walker
On 11/16/10 11:55 AM, Eli Kleinman wrote: Hi Shawn and thanks for the help, I booted back to my old boot environment, below is the output of the new boot environment. - I did a beadm mount sol11-2 /sol11 --- pkg -R /sol11 publisher PUBLISHER

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem upgrading b134 to solaris11 express

2010-11-16 Thread Shawn Walker
On 11/16/10 11:37 AM, Chris Ridd wrote: NAME (PUBLISHER) VERSION STATE UFOXI ... amp-dev 0.5.11-0.111installed - This is most likely the issue (assuming you've added the 'solaris' publisher as described

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem upgrading b134 to solaris11 express

2010-11-16 Thread Shawn Walker
On 11/16/10 10:17 AM, Eli Kleinman wrote: Please help, I am trying to upgrade opensolaris b134 to solaris11 express. I followed the Oracle docs at http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/821-1479/gklaa?l=en&a=view with no luck. Any help is greatly appreciated, below are the steps I tried. Going from

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 11 Express Repository - kinda bare

2010-11-16 Thread Shawn Walker
On 11/16/10 08:06 AM, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: did you download the repository or connect through the web? I have tried both and have problems both ways. Part B of the repository will not mount up under any filesystem type. after lofiadm the iso /dev/lofi/1 mount fails with not a hsfs filesystem.

Re: [osol-discuss] solaris 11 express and xvm

2010-11-16 Thread Shawn Walker
On 11/16/10 01:04 AM, Bruno Damour wrote: Hello, In the repository (http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release) I see : system/x...@0.5.11,5.11-0.151.0.1:20101105T061852Z system/virti...@0.5.11,5.11-0.151.0.1:20101105T061851Z ... Does that mean that xvm is supported to use solaris 11 express as Dom

Re: [osol-discuss] Update/patch policy?

2010-11-15 Thread Shawn Walker
On 11/15/10 05:35 PM, Sean M. Brannon wrote: What is the update/patch policy for Express? i.e. is an Oracle support contract required to gain access to Solaris 11 Express software/security updates? Page seven of the release notes refers to accessing information about updates: For information a

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 11 Express is out

2010-11-15 Thread Shawn Walker
On 11/15/10 11:03 AM, Karel Gardas wrote: interesting would be to know if the upgrade from OS 2009.06 is working well or not. Yes, the process is described here and was noted in the release announcement: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/821-1479/gklaa?l=en&a=view -Shawn ___

Re: [osol-discuss] pkg info vs pkginfo -il

2010-10-07 Thread Shawn Walker
On 10/ 6/10 07:46 PM, Lincoln Yeoh wrote: But why do the "fake" version strings differ depending on the tool used? Is there a translation/conversion I should use for them? The only version string that's "fake" is the one from "pkginfo". It differs because it's just placeholder information to

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris iscsi target gives 10% performance compared to nexenta

2010-10-07 Thread Shawn Walker
On 10/ 7/10 02:43 AM, chris wrote: I have been testing nexenta against opensolaris 2009.06 as an iscsi target / storage repository for Xenserver 5.6 using the same hardware and vm configuration. The target has two xeon quad-core cpus, 4gb ram and 4 seagate drives with opensolaris on the first

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Management Center

2010-10-06 Thread Shawn Walker
On 10/ 5/10 04:25 AM, julian wrote: K, I've managed to run this as the root user now by removing the type=role entry of the root user, but still get the same error: "The Wizard could not detect the source files. Exiting" As another test I tried this on a Centos VM as the root user, and the ins

Re: [osol-discuss] upgrade woes, snv_132 -> snv_147 -> snv_149

2010-09-29 Thread Shawn Walker
On 09/29/10 05:20 PM, Bill Shannon wrote: I upgraded my snv_132 system today. I'm using the Oracle-internal pkg server mirror so I apologize if this is in an Oracle-internal problem. The Update Manager upgraded me to snv_147 even though the latest version of "entire" available was 149. And it c

Re: [osol-discuss] Restoring snv 134 BE from backup

2010-09-17 Thread Shawn Walker
On 09/17/10 04:54 PM, devsk wrote: Somehow I ended up deleting the snv 134 BE that I had. Now, I can't upgrade to latest images (from openindiana) because it needs 134 as base. I want to restore the BE from backup, which I had taken some time back. How can I restore a BE to a workable state? I

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread Shawn Walker
On 09/16/10 01:14 PM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: On 09/16/10 12:03 PM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: On 09/16/10 05:00 AM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: "Richard L. Hamilton"wrote: Well..

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread Shawn Walker
On 09/16/10 12:03 PM, see...@cise.ufl.edu wrote: +-- Shawn Walker wrote (Thu, 16-Sep-2010, 10:50 -0700): | | The choice to not support sparse zones was a decision made by the zones | team; not by the packaging team. Out of curiosity and before I go searching, is the rationale for this

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread Shawn Walker
On 09/16/10 12:03 PM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: On 09/16/10 05:00 AM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: "Richard L. Hamilton" wrote: Well...there are probably people that prefer for example * traditional Solaris command set defa

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread Shawn Walker
On 09/16/10 11:38 AM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Calum Benson wrote: On 16 Sep 2010, at 14:04, Ashish Nabira wrote: Lets add those important packages to repositories and make OpenIndiana popular to newbiesThat's one good way to make it popular . Anyone who wanted to w

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread Shawn Walker
On 09/16/10 11:03 AM, Dmitry G. Kozhinov wrote: ... OpenIndiana project should maintain it's own package repository. Solaris 11 packages may occur incompatible - who knows how Oracle will modify the IPS system? An will they drop us IPS source code after Solaris 11 is released? The source for

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread Shawn Walker
On 09/16/10 05:00 AM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: "Richard L. Hamilton" wrote: Well...there are probably people that prefer for example * traditional Solaris command set default vs GNU command set default This is why few Solaris users did accept Indiana. Based on what data d

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-20 Thread Shawn Walker
On 08/20/10 09:41 AM, carlopmart wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: On 08/20/10 03:26 AM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: ... I can't see any other OS (nor M$ nor OSX) that to be licensed requires annual support subscription...when you buy Wins or Macs, you pay once for your license, that's all (

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-20 Thread Shawn Walker
On 08/20/10 09:41 AM, carlopmart wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: On 08/20/10 03:26 AM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: ... I can't see any other OS (nor M$ nor OSX) that to be licensed requires annual support subscription...when you buy Wins or Macs, you pay once for your license, that's all (

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-20 Thread Shawn Walker
On 08/20/10 03:26 AM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: ... I can't see any other OS (nor M$ nor OSX) that to be licensed requires annual support subscription...when you buy Wins or Macs, you pay once for your license, that's all (unless you really want or need support from M$ or Apple). RedHat enterpri

Re: [osol-discuss] List of Public/Anonymous Mercurial Gates?

2010-08-16 Thread Shawn Walker
On 08/16/10 02:03 PM, Kyle McDonald wrote: Hi, I've been traversing the project pages, looking for info on accessing their respective mercurial gates, but its a slow process. Is there an authoritative list of the gates hosted on hg.opensolaris.org that are open to anonymous access? If you hav

Re: [osol-discuss] gnome-sound-properties

2010-08-06 Thread Shawn Walker
On 08/ 6/10 10:44 AM, Mike DeMarco wrote: Does anyone know what happened to gone-sound-properties? Is there something that replaced it? Wanted to configure sound events and can not find anyway to do it. Same with evolution, unable to play sound file on incoming emails. So, this seems odd to m

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Express package installation failure

2010-07-29 Thread Shawn Walker
On 07/29/10 04:59 PM, tom60 wrote: Shawn, # pkg publisher PUBLISHER TYPE STATUS URI opensolaris.org (preferred) origin online http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/ # cat /etc/release Oracle Solaris Next Development snv_143 X86 Copyright (c) 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Asse

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Express package installation failure

2010-07-29 Thread Shawn Walker
On 07/29/10 02:33 PM, Tom Chen wrote: Hello, I have installed snv137 and snv143. I want to add gcc package through the package manager. Though I can search the list of gcc related packages from the publisher - opensolaris.org, the installation of gcc-43, gcc-432 always fails. The error is "Pr

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.0 ready for testing

2010-07-25 Thread Shawn Walker
On 07/24/10 03:51 PM, Rob McMahon wrote: On 24/07/2010 23:27, Shawn Walker wrote: The version of pkg(5) that will be part of b144 should deliver somewhere around a 20% or greater performance improvement in transport performance when used with a properly configured web and/or depot server. Do

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.0 ready for testing

2010-07-25 Thread Shawn Walker
On 07/24/10 11:55 PM, HeCSa wrote: ... On 07/24/10 08:23 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: ... The source is there, and you can build it you know ;) Alternatively, you could use the bits someone made available on genunix.org for b142: http://genunix.org/dist/richlowe/README.txt http://genunix.org/dist

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-24 Thread Shawn Walker
On 07/24/10 04:30 PM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Alan Coopersmith wrote: joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Alan Coopersmith wrote: Can Oracle Engineering provide someone like Joerg what he needs to update his external SchilliX distro to implement ON snv_145/IPS 13

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.0 ready for testing

2010-07-24 Thread Shawn Walker
On 07/24/10 04:25 PM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: It isn't mean to be in SXCE, so wasn't put there. I think you misunderstand its purpose. Maybe IPS was not developed for integration, then I could understand why it did not appear on SXCE. IPS w

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.0 ready for testing

2010-07-24 Thread Shawn Walker
On 07/24/10 04:17 PM, Ian Collins wrote: On 07/25/10 10:27 AM, Shawn Walker wrote: On 07/24/10 06:37 AM, Moinak Ghosh wrote: ... To stir the pot here, since we are discussing a "Community Distro" as opposed to a SUN/Oracle distro, IPS when used remotely from halfway across the world

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.0 ready for testing

2010-07-24 Thread Shawn Walker
On 07/24/10 07:06 AM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: On 07/23/10 04:41 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote: Why? IPS was shoved down the community's throat in a heavy handed and decidedly not FOSS manner. Sorry, but that's simply not true. The pkg(5) projec

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.0 ready for testing

2010-07-24 Thread Shawn Walker
On 07/24/10 10:08 AM, Stefan Parvu wrote: "> The only problem I can see in regards to how IPS was introduced that perhaps more explanation to the community at the project inception about why IPS and not something else would do good... a little bit more open dialog with the community before you

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.0 ready for testing

2010-07-24 Thread Shawn Walker
On 07/24/10 06:37 AM, Moinak Ghosh wrote: ... To stir the pot here, since we are discussing a "Community Distro" as opposed to a SUN/Oracle distro, IPS when used remotely from halfway across the world has large performance issues. For example in Bangalore I personally know no one

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.0 ready for testing

2010-07-23 Thread Shawn Walker
On 07/23/10 04:41 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote: Why? IPS was shoved down the community's throat in a heavy handed and decidedly not FOSS manner. Sorry, but that's simply not true. The pkg(5) project has been one of the few projects that is actually very open. It was the first to use defect.open

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Next timescale

2010-07-19 Thread Shawn Walker
On 07/19/10 03:53 AM, andrew wrote: ... So the big question is: will Solaris Next use IPS packaging? My money is on IPS packaging but a big fat CPIO-based DVD installation similar to S10 but using the new Caiman installers from OpenSolaris (local text and graphics-based installs plus via seria

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-19 Thread Shawn Walker
On 07/19/10 02:50 AM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: ... If we add the inverted tsort algorith and a default prefix for packages (e.g. http://schily.net/packages) and if we combine this with ZFS, is there really something missing? For those interested in learning more about the depe

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-19 Thread Shawn Walker
On 07/19/10 02:50 AM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: "Richard L. Hamilton" wrote: A packaging system is a packaging system. IPS is nobody's favorite, but that's better than arguing the merits of rpm vs deb vs BSD ports vs ... The SVr4 packaging system understands http based URIs

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-18 Thread Shawn Walker
On 07/18/10 04:57 PM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: However, one related thing to keep in mind is that the zone creation and management mechanisms are now tightly integrated with the image packaging system. Just as the automated installer is, etc. Other

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-18 Thread Shawn Walker
On 07/18/10 02:07 AM, Moinak Ghosh wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:41 AM, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: On 17 Jul 2010, at 18:07, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: One of the biggest problems with all of our community distros is that they are not compatible with IPS. This problem is further complicated by the

Re: [osol-discuss] [distribution-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-16 Thread Shawn Walker
On 07/16/10 01:26 PM, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: ... I like the idea of a minimalist distro, backed by a robust IPS. This is something which probably should have been started in the first place (instead of the current IMHO impossible mess). Now that you mentioned this great idea of putting togethe

Re: [osol-discuss] [distribution-discuss] Why do we need Oracle's permission or vision for OpenSolaris?

2010-07-16 Thread Shawn Walker
On 07/16/10 07:18 AM, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: ... Thanks again for this feedback. Do you know if the SVR4->IPS conversion tool(s) are publicly available/open source? The mass import tool is in the pkg(5) gate here: http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/pkg/gate/src/util/distro-import/ ...

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-14 Thread Shawn Walker
On 07/14/10 08:39 AM, Alex Viskovatoff wrote: dclarke wrote: I have no love for that python disaster called IPS. I think that conceptually, IPS is very good. Of course, it's silly to implement system software in an interpreted language like Python. In time, if OpenSolaris survives, hopefull

Re: [osol-discuss] osol-dev-134-x86.usb does not boot

2010-07-09 Thread Shawn Walker
On 07/ 9/10 02:05 PM, Aleksey Cheusov wrote: I've downloaded osol-dev-134-x86.usb memstick image in order to install opensolaris on my CD/DVD-less Acer Aspire Revo 3600. I dd-ed this image to my memory stick but my nettop doesn't boot from it. file(1) shows the following /srv/pub/isos/osol-dev-

Re: [osol-discuss] MySQLdb [and setuptools] for Python2.6 on snv_134(dev)

2010-07-09 Thread Shawn Walker
On 07/ 9/10 11:59 AM, Michael Brzustowicz wrote: when i search 'dev' for setuptools, something briefly appears and disappears in the package window ... i think it's setuptools and i just don't see python-mysql-26 at all, just 24 ... It would depend on what build of OpenSolaris you currently ha

Re: [osol-discuss] MySQLdb [and setuptools] for Python2.6 on snv_134(dev)

2010-07-09 Thread Shawn Walker
On 07/ 9/10 10:19 AM, Michael Brzustowicz wrote: the python-mysql connector "MySQLdb" is in dev repo for python2.4 ONLY! i download lastest package MySQL-python-1.2.3 and try command line install python setup.py install fails because 'setuptools' is apparently not in opensolaris. Uh, it's there

Re: [osol-discuss] The Possibilities

2010-07-06 Thread Shawn Walker
On 07/ 6/10 08:42 AM, Paul Gress wrote: On 07/ 6/10 01:13 AM, Ian Collins wrote: On 07/ 6/10 04:48 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: Opensolaris and solaris are for servers. Not desktops. Yes you can use it for a desktop if you want, but it's not designed for that purpose, and not good compared to o

Re: [osol-discuss] Open Solaris going the way of the Amiga

2010-06-28 Thread Shawn Walker
On 06/28/10 09:57 PM, Giovanni wrote: I really do hope it it like you say. Nevertheless, I have t say it is very difficult to work this way. I am talking OpenSolaris (but many things apply to Solaris as well). 1) No roadmap (do you have seen one recently) 2) Support for "new" hardware is still

Re: [osol-discuss] GCC-4.3.2, where does the binary get installed to?

2010-06-08 Thread Shawn Walker
On 06/ 8/10 03:30 PM, Günther Schmidt wrote: Hello, I wanted to install gcc-4.3.2 through the pkg system. It seems to do something but I do not see where the actual gcc binary is installed. I'm using OSOL 2009.06 To determine what files an *installed* package delivers, you can use pkg conten

Re: [osol-discuss] how come http://pkg.opensolaris.org/release/en/index.shtml

2010-06-08 Thread Shawn Walker
On 06/ 7/10 10:58 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: devsk wrote: is updated on Jun 2nd this year (hehe..) and it has 24000+ packages, whereas the "dev" one is updated in March this year and has about 4000 packages? I believe that's because /dev is running a newer version that reports the more inter

Re: [osol-discuss] pkg problems

2010-06-07 Thread Shawn Walker
On 06/ 7/10 10:35 AM, Rob Nelson wrote: Seems to be a problem with http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/. I am having this problem on multiple systems. --full has same issue: r...@gb4000-04:# pkg refresh --full Caching catalogs ... An error was encountered while attempting to read image state info

Re: [osol-discuss] Osol - pkg inst an earlier revision?

2010-06-05 Thread Shawn Walker
On 06/ 5/10 12:16 PM, Attila Nagy wrote: Aha, thanks for the info! I suspect this is by design so, am I right? Correct. Does this worth an RFE? I understand that this feature can/may cause troubles (only if used, of course :)), but - if used with caution, and, say a zfs snapshot :) - could

Re: [osol-discuss] Osol - pkg inst an earlier revision?

2010-06-05 Thread Shawn Walker
On 06/ 5/10 07:22 AM, Attila Nagy wrote: Hi all, I hit some bug in libtheora. I use recordmysolaris quite frequently, and libtheoraenc.so 1.1.2 (that's the current version if I recall correctly) encodes the uncompressed file badly into ogv. I'm on sxce (125), so I popped in an earlier dvd (117

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem: Slow ssh login to server

2010-06-01 Thread Shawn Walker
On 06/ 1/10 10:20 AM, Erik Trimble wrote: On 6/1/2010 9:19 AM, Shawn Walker wrote: On 06/ 1/10 05:39 AM, Brandon Hume wrote: On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 20:22 -0700, lance tan wrote: When I login to osol from another host in the LAN, obviously, the DNS server couldn't reverse resolve the IP i

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem: Slow ssh login to server

2010-06-01 Thread Shawn Walker
On 06/ 1/10 05:39 AM, Brandon Hume wrote: On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 20:22 -0700, lance tan wrote: When I login to osol from another host in the LAN, obviously, the DNS server couldn't reverse resolve the IP inside the LAN. But there is no way to disable DNS reverse lookup by SunSSH. No, but you

Re: [osol-discuss] Dev repository last catalog update is March 6, 2010?

2010-05-30 Thread Shawn Walker
On 05/30/10 03:25 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Mike Gerdts wrote: Could it be because "pkg image update" is known to work pretty well going forward (b134 -> b134b) but is known not to work well or is untested for going backward (b142 -> b134b)? pkg is known not to work at all for installing b

Re: [osol-discuss] image-update incredibly slow

2010-05-20 Thread Shawn Walker
[moving to pkg-discuss] On 05/19/10 05:04 PM, Antoine Benkemoun wrote: Hello, I am trying to update an OpenSolaris 2009.06 Xen VM (dom0 is Debian Lenny) from build 111 to 134. It is incredibly slow, you can't even imagine... Yesterday, I started the process at 11PM and at 6PM today it crashed

Re: [osol-discuss] protolist: command not found

2010-05-20 Thread Shawn Walker
On 05/20/10 04:46 AM, Adil Mujeeb wrote: HI, I was going through OpenSolaris develoeps reference and read about Proto Area. It has been mentioned that:- You can generate protolists with the protolist command, which does not include a man page. Its invocation is as follows: $ protolist But the

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris HCL seems to have vanished

2010-05-17 Thread Shawn Walker
On 05/17/10 06:06 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > Is this simply web page maintenance, or is it a closed door? Wow, it was there this morning. I just went and looked at http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/ ... all those links go to the web grave yard. Very odd. The Solaris 10 HCL has the sam

Re: [osol-discuss] [pkg-discuss] unable to add publisher: pkg hangs

2010-05-06 Thread Shawn Walker
On 04/29/10 08:41 AM, solarg wrote: hello all, on my os20xx.xx, b134, i'm unable to add a publisher: $ pfexec pkg set-publisher -O http://ips.enst.fr ips.enst.fr it hangs: $ pfexec truss -p 2251 lwp_mutex_timedlock(0xFCC3, 0x, 0xFEE12A00) (sleeping...) it's not the first time i had

Re: [osol-discuss] SUNWgmake download

2010-05-05 Thread Shawn Walker
On 05/ 5/10 10:42 PM, Ian Collins wrote: On 05/ 6/10 03:16 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: ... There's an RFE open to have the client be able to perform the 'download only' part of installs and updates, but it hasn't yet been implemented. OK, thanks. I hope it's getting atte

Re: [osol-discuss] SUNWgmake download

2010-05-05 Thread Shawn Walker
On 05/ 5/10 09:53 PM, Ian Collins wrote: On 05/ 6/10 02:46 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: On 05/ 5/10 06:56 PM, Jim Mills wrote: Thanks, Alan. I was hoping to find a link where I can download individual packages. The repo on a stick sounds like a good idea but it's really not what I want. I

Re: [osol-discuss] SUNWgmake download

2010-05-05 Thread Shawn Walker
On 05/ 5/10 06:56 PM, Jim Mills wrote: Thanks, Alan. I was hoping to find a link where I can download individual packages. The repo on a stick sounds like a good idea but it's really not what I want. I need about 20 packages installed (locally) and have been able to download about 25% of what

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