RFC: Better portability for package maintainers

2006-05-19 Thread Alex Ross
The following is based on premises that portability is good and that POSIX is a standard. A proposal. Over the last couple months we've built about gazillion Ubuntu/Dapper packages. The process is heavily automated ([1], [2], [3]). And so, to lookup the result of the XYZ build (where XYZ is a

Re: RFC: Better portability for package maintainers

2006-05-19 Thread Alex Ross
Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 01:15:44PM -0700, Alex Ross wrote: Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 10:34:35AM -0700, Alex Ross wrote: The following is based on premises that portability is good and that POSIX is a standard. A proposal. I didn't see a concrete

Re: RFC: Better portability for package maintainers

2006-05-19 Thread Alex Ross
Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 10:34:35AM -0700, Alex Ross wrote: The following is based on premises that portability is good and that POSIX is a standard. A proposal. I didn't see a concrete proposal in your email, only information about where to find gnusolaris build logs

Re: dpkg support for solaris-i386 architecture

2006-04-06 Thread Alex Ross
Andrew Donnellan wrote: (d-l may give advice) So now that's sorted out really Nexenta needs an exemption from *every* copyright holder in dpkg, gcc, binutils, apt, coreutils, etc. (the GNU utils would be easier as there is _usually_ only one copyright holder: FSF) or OpenSolaris needs to

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-08 Thread Alex Ross
Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Andy Teijelo PĆ©rez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: El Martes, 8 de Noviembre de 2005 1:11, Thomas Bushnell BSG escribiĆ³: Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I understand your concern. We will release ISO image with CDDL/GPL sources very soon. Majority of them already

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-07 Thread Alex Ross
John Hasler wrote: David Schmitt writes: I have downloaded the elatte_live_prealpha1_x86.iso.gz[1] from your website and found a dpkg binary on it. Much to my dismay I was not able to locate the source for this binary, despite it being obviously under the GPL[2]. Was the requisite written

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-07 Thread Alex Ross
Matthew Garrett wrote: Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the time of writing, I assumed GNU/Solaris implied they'd use the GNU libc (so I didn't even ask them about it). Having downloaded their preview ISO: The system is using Solaris's C library, but contains a great deal of GPLed

Nexenta OS (GNU/Solaris) website is now open!

2005-11-04 Thread Alex Ross
http://www.gnusolaris.org is now open. We got an overwhelming response! We simply could not process all requests for the Pilot membership in a timely fashion. We do hope that people waiting for the login user/password will see this message. The rest information is on the website. We'll keep it

[Fwd: Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program]

2005-11-02 Thread Alex Ross
Michael Banck wrote: Do you plan to use debian-installer for installation? Yes. Do you plan to submit your port as an official port to Debian once it stabilizes? Yes. If so, do you plan to use Debian's mailing lists and bug tracking system for development? No. We have ours: svn,

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-02 Thread Alex Ross
Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't want to debate on legality of GPL vs. CDDL. But if you in doubt, you could try to ask Sun lawers on why exactly this is possible: http://www.sun.com/gnome as well as other LGPG and GPL software which is shipped with

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-02 Thread Alex Ross
Alex Ross wrote: Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't want to debate on legality of GPL vs. CDDL. But if you in doubt, you could try to ask Sun lawers on why exactly this is possible: http://www.sun.com/gnome as well as other LGPG and GPL software which

Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-01 Thread Alex Ross
Nexenta OS: Debian based GNU/Solaris == This is to announce Nexenta: the first-ever distribution that combines GNU and OpenSolaris. As you might know, Sun Microsystems just opened Solaris kernel under CDDL license, which allows one to build custom Operating Systems.

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-01 Thread Alex Ross
Matthew Palmer wrote: I'm not discounting that it's new and exciting (I wouldn't say totally, but that's a matter of opinion), and I'm in fact quite interested in what the technical benefits of running Debian on a Solaris kernel might be for my needs. However, Alex did specifically claim that