On 6/19/08, Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> ----
>
> 2008-06-17: ksh93 update tarballs for Solaris Nevada+Indiana
>
> These tarballs are intended to be installed over an existing OpenSolaris
> >= B84 i386 or SPARC installation and provide ksh93t-_20080614 and match
> PSARC/2008/094 ("ksh93 Update 1" ;
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2008/094)/ +
> PSARC/2008/344 ("ksh93 Integration Update 1 Amendments 1" ;
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2008/344/)
>
> Note that the binaries are provided for testing and evaluation purposes
> ONLY.
>
> Please report any problems/errors/bugs/comments to the ksh93-integration
> project bugzilla[5] or the ksh93-integration mailinglist[4] (please
> subscribe before posting).
>
>
> ** Highlights of this release:
> - /etc/ksh.kshrc now sets a default prompt for interactive sessions
> (see NOTES below)
>
> - Many bugfixes, primarily focussing on stability, improved error
> checking, performance and fixing support for large, complex
> variable trees.
>
> - Many closed-source binaries are replaced with opensource versions
>
> - The shell script compiler "shcomp" is now included
>
> - Many new demos including:
> - "crawlsrccomments" (two-phased source code comment+license
> extrator which uses serialised variable trees for
> storage+caching)
> - "filemutexdemo1" (demo to show ksh93's new type system and
> an implementation of filesystem-based read/write locks)
> - "multifollow" (poll(1) demo which run multiple "tail -f")
> - "shnote" (utility to read/write pastebin.ca)
> - "shtwitter" (access twitter.com service and push blog
> entries)
> - "shpiano" (audio demo)
> - "shtinyurl" (tool to generate short tinyurl.com URLs)
> - "svcproptree1" (SMF demo)
> - "test_net_sctp" (SCTP demo)
> - "shman" (early prototype of a /usr/bin/man rewrite)
> - "xmldocumenttree1" (XML parser demo)
> ... and much more...
>
>
> ** Install instructions:
>
> 1. Download the tarball:
> + i386/AMD64:
>
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ksh93-integration/downloads/ksh93_integration_20080617_snapshot_i386.tar.bz2
> + SPARC:
>
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ksh93-integration/downloads/ksh93_integration_20080617_snapshot_sparc.tar.bz2
> 2. Verify the MD5 checksum:
> + i386/AMD64: MD5
> (ksh93_integration_20080617_snapshot_i386.tar.bz2)=
> efce5d0f4417b7d5579370c4c14280b7
> + SPARC: MD5
> (ksh93_integration_20080617_snapshot_sparc.tar.bz2)=
> 247ecbcfd962e24d115b033c97437ab3
> 3. Login as user "root":
> 4. Change directory to / and unpack the tarball with /usr/bin/tar
> using the "xvof" option ("o" is very important to set the file
> ownership to "root")
>
> * Example for i386/AMD64:
>
> $ cd /tmp
> $ wget
>
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ksh93-integration/downloads/ksh93_integration_20080617_snapshot_i386.tar.bz2
> $ /usr/sfw/bin/openssl md5 \
> ksh93_integration_20080617_snapshot_i386.tar.bz2
> MD5(ksh93_integration_20080617_snapshot_i386.tar.bz2)=
> efce5d0f4417b7d5579370c4c14280b7
> # cd /
> # sync ; sync
> # bzcat </tmp/ksh93_integration_20080617_snapshot_i386.tar.bz2 |
> tar -xvof -
> # sync ; sync
>
> * Example for SPARC:
>
> $ cd /tmp
> $ wget
>
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ksh93-integration/downloads/ksh93_integration_20080617_snapshot_sparc.tar.bz2
> $ /usr/sfw/bin/openssl md5 \
> ksh93_integration_20080617_snapshot_sparc.tar.bz2
> MD5(ksh93_integration_20080617_snapshot_sparc.tar.bz2)=
> 247ecbcfd962e24d115b033c97437ab3
> # cd /
> # sync ; sync
> # bzcat </tmp/ksh93_integration_20080617_snapshot_sparc.tar.bz2 |
> tar -xvof -
> # sync ; sync
>
>
> ** Notes:
>
> * This tarball matches ksh93t- (=ast-ksh.2008-06-14) with many
> many changes since the last version. Please test the binaries
> extensively.
> * The binaries now are build from a B84-based tree and require
> SXCR B84 or higher
> * Sources/diffs/webrevs:
> + The diffs between Solaris Nevada B84 and the current
> ksh93-integration tree can be obtained via
> $ svn diff -r 974:1122
> svn://svn.genunix.org/on/branches/ksh93/gisburn/prototype011/usr #
> or as unified diff
>
> (http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ksh93-integration/downloads/svn_genunix_org_on_branches_ksh93_gisburn_prototype011_rev_974_1122.diff.txt
> ; 4.5MB, MD5 checksum is
> 2bfe00f5552bd0ef97d4f19feb7d5727).
> * /etc/ksh.kshrc now sets a default prompt (PS1) which contains
> <username>@<hostname>:<current_directory>$<blank> for normal
> users and <username>@<hostname>:<current_directory>#<blank> for
> user "root"; the prompt length itself is limited to ~~20
> characters to ensure it only occupies 1/4 of a standard 80x24
> terminal window.
Previous releases used multiple lines when editing lines that are
longer than the window width. Why is it no longer the default?
Chris
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