On Fri, Sep 09, 2005, Birger Krägelin wrote: > there have been some emails about bootstrapping openpkg on Solaris. > Especially there are somtimes problems with missing compilers > for the first stage. > > In my environment, I set up machines with a minimal Solaris 10, > i.e. Solaris Reduced Network Cluster (less than Solaris Core from > older systems), and add some packages, which are needed for OpenPKG > and some servers. > > The systems are hardened, but they are able to do OpenPKG source > installations. > For that I first install an older binary distribution from the OpenPKG > site and then bootstrap the newest version. This bootstrap is a bit > dirty, hardcoded packagenames, just until OpenPKG build is installed. > After that everything runs fine. > > This bootstrap is packaged to a full jumpstart environment, which fits > on a USB drive, we use as jumpstart media. Together with a slightly > modified Solaris CD, which accepts USB-drives as a replacement for > a floppy. > > If anybody is interested, I will share this code. It's a bit to much > to send it to a mailing list. If there is broader interest, I will > post small parts, how bootstrapping OpenPKG is done.
One place where you can start posting those things incrementally is on http://wiki.openpkg.org/. I've created a http://wiki.openpkg.org/?BuildingOpenPKGunderSolaris page for you as a start. Feel free to add your documentation, tutorial, etc there directly yourself. Once in a reasonable shape please let the community know about it by mentioning explicitly the page here again. Ralf S. Engelschall [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.engelschall.com ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List openpkg-users@openpkg.org
