Am 17.11.19 um 01:46 schrieb Gary Mills: > I have a series of questions to ask the members of this mailing list. > I have information to share with you as well. I already have partial > answers to most of the questions, but I'd still like to hear from you. > > First of all, how much interest do you have in OI on SPARC? My As I have some old SPARC gear, I am interested in having OI on SPARC. > interest is as a developer and tester. What is your interest? > I'd like to determine the size of the audience. My interest in SPARC has almost vanished. I still own an E250 (US-II), a Blade 2000, a Blade 2500 and an Ultra 45. Most of the time these machines only collect dust.
> > How should I contribute to OI on SPARC? I have plans to build more > packages, and to do so with fewer changes to the OI source. I also > have plans to update the distribution from the current 2018 to 2019 or > 2020. Does this sound reasonable to you? Yes. I have downloaded your first release. Alas I had no time to install it on one of my machines yet. > > How should you contribute to OI on SPARC? I've filed bug reports > for many of the changes I've made. They can be seen at: > > https://www.illumos.org/projects/openindiana/issues > > I've attached patches to each bug report, but in order for these > patches to be integrated into the OI source, the patches need to be > turned into PRs for github. They also need to be tested on x86 to > make sure they don't accidentally change anything there. Can you help > with any of this? Can you build packages for SPARC from OI source? I can help here as I am mildly experienced with Hipster's build system on x86 and have a few build machines here. The biggest hindrance here is lack of time. > Can you help in any other way? > > What type of repository do you prefer? Should it be file-based, as it > is now, or should it be remote, as for OI x86? The repository will Best would be a remote repository as we have it with OI x86. Do we have an "official" build system for SPARC? The old gear is loud and power hungry. > only get larger, as people build more packages and publish them. Will > you download such a large file? I don't know of any way to merge > repositories, so there must be only one. > > Finally, who should coordinate OI on SPARC? Should this be done by > the OI project, or should it be done separately? Keep in mind that OI I am not sure whether the actual project members will have enough free cycles to master an additional architecture. We are very few and at the moment nobody seems to have a lot of time that could be devoted to OI. > SPARC uses OI source. Most of it builds and publishes with no > changes. When changes are necessary, my plan has been to introduce > them with no harm to x86 packages built from the same source. Indeed, > some of the changes fix bugs in the corresponding x86 packages. Also > keep in mind that IPS is designed to handle multiple architectures, > making it easy to integrate SPARC with x86. In fact, this is already > done for illumos. > > Maybe Everycity is also willing to sponsor to host a SPARC repository like they are doing for x86 now. I doubt that they can provide a build environment for it. Regards, Andreas _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
