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
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