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
>

Reply via email to