On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Adriaan de Groot wrote: > Well, it's been one of those weeks of running forward to keep standing still, > or something like that. Some notes on what I have been doing: > > - Rather brusquely, I shoved all the KBE packages into a category KBE. > Since I don't know if there are rules governing SUNW_Category, this > might be a mistake, but it makes it much easier for me right now to yes > | pkgrm -Y KBE.
That's a good question, and I don't know the answer to that. A long time ago in a far away land, before I worked at Sun, I had a "prefix" reserved, but I am not sure how it was done, a gent by the name of Graham Lovell, who works in marketing. The prefix was CSW which was for Community Software. Through a turn of events, Blastwave uses it now. I don't know that it really matters, as long as the packaging is unique. I'm not sure it's worth even pursuing to get a prefix registered, because that concept was based around the old Solaris before OpenSolaris existed. > - I fixed the missing mkdirs which would trip up kbe-install on a fresh > system which had no ~/packages/SOURCES or SPECS yet. Nice. > - Work only in Stefan's source trees. These are in CVSDude. I need to pull them, so this will be a good point for me to start. I need to get my system setup with the build tools. As I remember, CVSDude has all those tools that Lukas was working on also. > This tool seems to work fairly well, although it is finicky and > undocumented, and already three days old (the neighbours have a three day old > baby, and she is *much* better behaved than my code). It always depends on the child...one of mine was finicky and the other wasn't...at least your code wasn't still born! <g> > - What the exactly just right flags should be will be a topic for another IRC > meeting on friday at midnight CET on #kde-solaris. Is that central european time? > - From a short experiment just now, KDE4 runs better on Solaris than on > FreeBSD. Nice. What is actually functioning on it? Can you open a konsole? -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group
