That's a good improvement. Last time they were not -- I had to use my sunsolve login before I could download them (it might have been because they were not necessairly the latest SS patches).
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Piotr Jasiukajtis <estseg at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Jason King <jason at ansipunx.net> wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Richard Lowe <richlowe at richlowe.net> >> wrote: >>> "James C. McPherson" <James.McPherson at Sun.COM> writes: >>> >>>> On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:18:24 +0300 >>>> Cyril Plisko <cyril.plisko at mountall.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Piotr Jasiukajtis <estseg at gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> > Hi, >>>>> > >>>>> >>If you are maintaining your own nv build machine, ?you may also >>>>> >>want to update your SUNWspro with the new patch set. The tar balls >>>>> >>are available as : >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>>> >>/net/jurassic-x4600.sfbay/tank/home/India/sp92102/SS12-20090626-sparc.tar.gz >>>>> >> >>>>> >>/net/jurassic-x4600.sfbay/tank/home/India/sp92102/SS12-20090626-x86.tar.gz >>>>> > >>>>> > What about to create and upload a tarball of working SS12+patches for >>>>> > non-sun people? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Indeed. the canonical place to get compilers from is >>>>> http://opensolaris.org/os/community/tools/sun_studio_tools/ rather >>>>> than /net/jurassic-x4600.sfbay/... >>>>> Hiding the principal tools behind the corporate firewall is >>>>> unthoughtful toward the community. >>>> >>>> We are working on this and will have it available as soon as >>>> humanly possible. Our boundary condition is that we have to >>>> get the tarballs up on SDLC. That takes time, because there is >>>> a distinct and itemised Correct Process which must be followed. >>>> >>> >>> (I'm not aiming this at you James, as you know...) >>> >>> Can we, this time, please, get it noted down that this has to be done >>> long in advance of any intended switch, to guarantee the availability of >>> the compilers. ?This has gone wrong each and every update to the CBE >>> that has occurred. >>> >>> You need to start gating the compiler switch on it's arrival on the DLC, >>> or schedule things such that it the arrival on the DLC coincides. >> >> As someone who lost a lot of time on SS11 -> 12 switch, +1000000. >> >> It sort of belies the whole open concept when the only people that can >> build the core part of OpenSolaris are Sun employees or people with >> support contracts (and thus have access to the relevant SS12 patches), >> even if it's only a temporary condition. > These patches are available for free but it takes a lot of time to > prepare a build machine from scratch. > I believe it is almost impossible for a new people in Solaris world to do > that. > > -- > Piotr Jasiukajtis | estibi | SCA OS0072 > http://estseg.blogspot.com >
