FYI, I’m annoying folks at the OpenZFS dev summit about this in case
there’s overlap.
Salt is probably the only mainstream config management tool I don’t
use regularly, so I can’t justify volunteering.
On 27 Oct 2025, at 14:46, Marcel Telka wrote:
Hi all,
The Salt, or Salt Project <https://saltproject.io> , also known as
SaltStack is packaged for OpenIndiana as system/management/salt. It
is
currently at version 3007.1.
This version was released by upstream in May 2024. The latest
upstream
version of Salt is 3007.8 released in September 2025.
In 2023-2024 I updated Salt few times in our repo, but since I do not
use it (and I never used it) I've no idea if it works or not. Also, I
do not know if it is used by somebody at all.
The project itself does have several problems that make its
maintenance
hard, for example:
- salt's testsuite fails early so it is unclear if the package works
at
all at OpenIndiana
- with almost every new upstream release the project brings several
new
dependencies that we need to package as well to make the salt
installable
- some of these dependencies lacks illumos/Solaris support
- salt relies on some very old python modules that does not work
properly with new Pythons
Because of that I think we do have only two options:
- somebody steps in to maintain our Salt package, or
- we obsolete and remove Salt from OpenIndiana:
https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/pull/24480
If you are using Salt at OpenIndiana and/or want to maintain it,
please
let me know ASAP.
Thank you.
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