gba wrote: > Hi, > > Can you tell me, please, where the differences between GNU/Solaris and > OpenSolaris are? I mean here the differences on the source level.
Terminology first.. NexentaOS contains OpenSolaris kernel and core runtime. NexentaOS != GNU/OpenSolaris. NexentaOS is one concrete GNU/OpenSolaris system. > > I cannot imagine that without heavy patching you get the binaries of Ubuntu > run on OpenSolaris. But in the packages section I see nowhere the diff.gz > files that you would need to build the binaries; I see only the tar.gz with > the (original) source. And where is your Changelog for the packages, please ? > We use Subversion. "The repository is like a time machine. It keeps a record of every change ever committed, and allows you to explore this history by examining previous versions of files and directories as well as the metadata that accompanies them." That's a quote from a good book on Subversion available online at http://svnbook.red-bean.com. Take a look to understand where to find Changelog, and why we don't need patches. We do keep both the original packages and ours. Each package has a "pool" and a "trunk". This is explained in http://www.gnusolaris.org/Getting_Started_for_Developers, see Steps #4 and #5. > > > Also I am very interested in the question what you use as your libc? The libc > package is a dummy and sunwcsl is missing. For libc-dev you depend on some > core Sun packages but some are also missing. What have you "done" to the > Ubuntu packages to be able to run on this (half-missing?) libc and what have > you "done" to the Sun libc to be able to compile Ubuntu packages on this > libc? > > With other words I miss the documentation of the way the packages went to > become GNU/Solaris packages. The Getting_Started_for_Developers page provides a short introduction. Assuming you already know Debian, just try to build a package. And we'll help along the way. The result of this trial may, by the way, feed back into the missing documentation. > > The questions I ask here have the cause that I want to set up a buildd for > GNU/Solaris. First I want to operate it locally on my home network so I can > test it fully. Then I want to bring it either to the gnusolaris.org server > (if the devs here allow it) or to my own public server. But the questions > above should be answered before I can go on with setting up a Solaris buildd. Makes sense to take it in steps. > > > > But anyway thanks for your great work. > Anyway... thanks ;) -- Alex _______________________________________________ GNU/Solaris Development mailing list [email protected]
