Re: [indiana-discuss] SUNWrtorrent

2009-09-09 Thread Jim Walker
Nilsen, Vidar wrote: James wrote: Nilsen, Vidar wrote: It looks like the package is compiled without the "--with-xmlrpc-c" switch, which makes it hard to add more "userfriendly" interfaces like wtorrent etc. I'm wondering if there is some place one can request features, or wishes? I can't fi

Re: [indiana-discuss] SUNWrtorrent

2009-09-09 Thread Jim Walker
Nilsen, Vidar wrote: It looks like the package is compiled without the "--with-xmlrpc-c" switch, which makes it hard to add more "userfriendly" interfaces like wtorrent etc. I'm wondering if there is some place one can request features, or wishes? I can't find any contact information in the pa

Re: [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris Use Case Project

2009-09-01 Thread Jim Walker
Alexander Eremin wrote: > Great Jim, I hope this will be very useful. Can help with something in Distributions section ;) Cool! Cheers, Jim ___ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo

[indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris Use Case Project

2009-08-31 Thread Jim Walker
The Use Case Project has been approved by all listed communities. http://wiki.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/use_case_project_proposal I requested the email list now, and the project page when xWiki is ready. We can use genunix in the meantime. Cheers, Jim ___

Re: [indiana-discuss] [osol-discuss] DRAFT2: OpenSolaris Use Case Project Proposal

2009-08-21 Thread Jim Walker
ahead and generate a page there. Great. Here's where the final proposal lives. http://wiki.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/use_case_project_proposal Cheers, Jim -- Jim Walker, http://blogs.sun.com/jwalker Sun Microsystems, Broomfield, Colorado ___

Re: [indiana-discuss] [osol-discuss] DRAFT2: OpenSolaris Use Case Project Proposal

2009-08-21 Thread Jim Walker
masafumi) Ken Mays (kmays) Mike Gerdts (mgerdts) Thanks, Jim -- Jim Walker, http://blogs.sun.com/jwalker Sun Microsystems, Broomfield, Colorado ___ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss

[indiana-discuss] DRAFT2: OpenSolaris Use Case Project Proposal

2009-08-20 Thread Jim Walker
Thanks for the great response. It looks like there is a need for this project :) I added the Systems Administration area. Just a few more details before we begin the project ratification process: - need someone to volunteer to be project point of contact - I would like one more Community to sp

[indiana-discuss] DRAFT: OpenSolaris Use Case Project Proposal

2009-08-14 Thread Jim Walker
This concept was discussed a few months ago on indiana-discuss as a beta test project, after looking at this more closely I refocused it on Use Cases since that is what we really are needing. There were several people interested in being part of a project like this. All input welcome. Specifical

Re: [indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-29 Thread Jim Walker
Glynn Foster wrote: For a sneak preview of what's on the list for 2009.06, take a look at http://www.gnome.org/~gman/opensolaris-whats-new/ Comments welcome - I may have overlooked it. I'll be working to finalize this during the week and then get posted on opensolaris.com. Here's a stab a

Re: [indiana-discuss] Garbage in the boot console after upgrading to svn111a from svn110

2009-04-27 Thread Jim Walker
Yiannis Mavroukakis wrote: Just noticed this, a lot of UTF8 garbage is printed in the console while booting just before it shows the hostname. System seems ok after it boots though, any ideas? I see this too on a Toshiba r600, I haven't had a chance to check the bugs yet. Cheers, Jim __

Re: [indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-20 Thread Jim Walker
It might be good to say a few things about the contrib repo and how to port your favorite pkg via sourcejuicer. Cheers, Jim ___ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss

[indiana-discuss] [Fwd: [advocacy-discuss] Apps of Steel Challenge!]

2009-04-14 Thread Jim Walker
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Re: [indiana-discuss] Beta testing, "internal" builds, etc.

2009-02-26 Thread Jim Walker
Joanmarie Diggs wrote: Sounds like an awesome idea! Please include me amongst the contributors to this project. Done. My official/primary interest and background is around accessibility. In addition, I have three desktops and two laptops in my home all with bare metal OpenSolaris installs al

Re: [indiana-discuss] Build 107 in VirtualBox: Boot Failed

2009-02-26 Thread Jim Walker
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Hi Jim, This is a great proposal, I will be more than happy to participate. I'll start working on a project proposal. There are some others interested in helping out with a beta test project. Cheers, Jim ___ indiana-discuss

Re: [indiana-discuss] Build 107 in VirtualBox: Boot Failed

2009-02-25 Thread Jim Walker
I'm sure there are others that could help lead also, and I think there are many people that would be interested in contributing to it. Cheers, Jim -- Jim Walker, http://blogs.sun.com/jwalker Sun Microsystems, Broomfield, Colorado ___ indiana-disc

Re: [indiana-discuss] src packages

2008-12-11 Thread Jim Walker
Shawn Walker wrote: > > I still believe it is not the right place to store this information. > Quite frankly, I wouldn't want us to be using what resources we have for > serving this content instead of the content we really care about: packages. > > I also think that this content will end up bei

Re: [indiana-discuss] src packages

2008-12-09 Thread Jim Walker
Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:00:05AM +, Robert Milkowski wrote: >> NW> IPS supports metadata for linking to: source tarballs/what not, and spec >> NW> files. The efforts to populate /pending and /contrib will include such >> NW> metadata in those packages. In theory it

Re: [indiana-discuss] opensolaris 2008/11 rc2 on macbook pro (fdisk fails during installation)

2008-12-01 Thread Jim Walker
Basant Kumar kukreja wrote: > I am trying to install opensolaris 2008/11 rc2 build on macbook pro. I am > trying to do dual boot on same machine. Have you looked at this? http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OpenSolaris_Dual_Boot Cheers, Jim ___ india

Re: [indiana-discuss] [sw-porters-discuss] contrib and pending repo processes

2008-11-19 Thread Jim Walker
Shawn, Thanks for all the detail. The only things I didn't update based on this feedback are: 1. process titles - I want to specifically define the processes by name 2. The SunStudio guidelines - I would like to add a tested SunStudio example. BTW. If anyone wants to add some start to fi

Re: [indiana-discuss] [sw-porters-discuss] [desktop-discuss] contrib and pending repo processes

2008-11-19 Thread Jim Walker
Guido Berhoerster wrote: > > Well it would be really nice if that would be reflected in the > proposal, especially that the current procedure is temporary > until further infrastructure is in place. Thanks for all the input. I'll update the process today, so we can do another round of review. Ch

Re: [indiana-discuss] [desktop-discuss] [sw-porters-discuss] contrib and pending repo processes

2008-11-18 Thread Jim Walker
Shawn Walker wrote: >> I agree with all Nico points. Spec file based submissions built in a >> controlled machine. > > ...where applicable and possible. Right. We can streamline the process for spec file based submissions, which may be 90%+ of the total, but the process should support other appro

Re: [indiana-discuss] [sw-porters-discuss] contrib and pending repo processes

2008-11-18 Thread Jim Walker
Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 02:09:30PM -0800, John Sonnenschein wrote: >> That would be acceptable. I'd still prefer the code to be built on an >> internal machine such that we have an exact record, but I'm willing to >> bend this far. > > I think you'd have to insist tha

Re: [indiana-discuss] [desktop-discuss] contrib and pending repo processes

2008-11-18 Thread Jim Walker
Nicolas Williams wrote: > Incidentally, I think we want a URL to a spec file too. > I agree a info.spec_url attribute would be very useful. Cheers, Jim ___ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [indiana-discuss] [sw-porters-discuss] contrib and pending repo processes

2008-11-18 Thread Jim Walker
John Sonnenschein wrote: >> >> o The source code used to build the package must be referenced by url >> or included, unless explicitly approved by the community by TWO "+1" >> votes and NO "-1" votes after TWO non-weekend days > > That would be acceptable. I'd still prefer the code to be built o

Re: [indiana-discuss] [sw-porters-discuss] contrib and pending repo processes

2008-11-18 Thread Jim Walker
the /contrib language below, does it work? o The source code used to build the package must be referenced by url or included, unless explicitly approved by the community by TWO "+1" votes and NO "-1" votes after TWO non-weekend days Cheers, Jim -- Jim Walker, http://blo

Re: [indiana-discuss] [sw-porters-discuss] contrib and pending repo processes

2008-11-18 Thread Jim Walker
John Sonnenschein wrote: > It's one thing if someone makes a mistake and accidentally breaks things, > even security things, it's another thing if we institutionalize and automate > the ability to upload malware. Even debian/unstable hasn't done that. Do we > /really/ want to be the first to have v

Re: [indiana-discuss] [sw-porters-discuss] contrib and pending repo processes

2008-11-18 Thread Jim Walker
A Hettinger wrote: > Frankly the biggest problem I see that that the two policies read > (presently): /pending: "The source code used to build the package should be > referenced by url or included, since it will be required for inclusion in the > /contrib repo" /contrib: "The source code used to bu

Re: [indiana-discuss] [desktop-discuss] contrib and pending repo processes

2008-11-18 Thread Jim Walker
Stephen, Thanks. I updated the page as you indicated. How should arch/isa information be indicated? legacy arch=i386 set name=info.ISA value=i386 While we are here, is this the correct value for Sparc: "sparc"? Cheers, Jim Stephen Hahn wrote: > * Jim Walker <[EMAIL P

[indiana-discuss] contrib and pending repo processes

2008-11-18 Thread Jim Walker
I moved the process description onto opensolaris.org for final review: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/sw-porters/contributing/ Take a look and let me know what else needs to be updated. Cheers, Jim ___ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@

[indiana-discuss] contrib and pending repo processes

2008-11-18 Thread Jim Walker
I moved the process description onto opensolaris.org for final review: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/sw-porters/contributing/ Take a look and let me know what else needs to be updated. Cheers, Jim -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [indiana-discuss] [sw-porters-discuss] contrib and pending repo processes

2008-11-14 Thread Jim Walker
Shawn Walker wrote: >> I agree with you on "maintainership" even in the /pending repo. The >> manifest needs to identify who submitted the package by name and email >> address, and the submitter should assume maintainership unless they defer >> it to someone else. The pkgfactory may be able to us

Re: [indiana-discuss] [sw-porters-discuss] contrib and pending repo processes

2008-11-14 Thread Jim Walker
Guido Berhoerster wrote: > * Jim Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-14 22:44]: >> review the packages going into /contrib? I would like to keep the quality >> bar as high as possible for /contrib. This was the primary reason for >> /pending. /pending is the dumping

Re: [indiana-discuss] [sw-porters-discuss] contrib and pending repo processes

2008-11-14 Thread Jim Walker
Sivakumar Shanmugasundaram wrote: > It would be good to mandate that while building these binaries, the libraries > out of the main repo (out of pkg.opensolaris.org/) should be used to build. > Libraries from /usr/local or /opt/csw (definitely no disrespect to > Sunfreeware or Blastwave) should not

Re: [indiana-discuss] [sw-porters-discuss] contrib and pending repo processes

2008-11-14 Thread Jim Walker
Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 02:05:45AM +0100, Guido Berhoerster wrote: >> It seems to have been modified heavily since I read it. From what I can see >> it does not mention that building/packaging takes place on opensolaris.org. >> According to the "pending repository process"

Re: [indiana-discuss] [sw-porters-discuss] contrib and pending repo processes

2008-11-14 Thread Jim Walker
Shawn Walker wrote: >>> >>> However, one size does not fit all, and that should also be recognized. >>> >>> Not every package should have to have a spec file; trusted members >>> should be able to deliver to a staging server for review directly. >> Exactly! >> >> I'm not arguing that the process m

Re: [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris on MACbook Pro

2008-09-09 Thread Jim Walker
Thiago Pereira wrote: > Hi guys, > > Has anybody installed OpenSolaris in on Macbook Pro? Is it good, it`s > working nicely? Yes. I've done it on bare metal and via VirtualBox. It works well. Here's a wiki: http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OpenSolaris_Dual_Boot Cheers, Jim __

Re: [indiana-discuss] [opensolaris-summit] summit video

2008-05-08 Thread Jim Walker
Deirdre Straughan wrote: > I've posted a video of everyone's self-introductions from the summit, see > http://blogs.sun.com/deirdre/entry/video_open_solaris_developers_summit Great work Deirdre! Cheers, Jim ___ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-disc

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana DP2 installer not working on MacBook?

2008-04-09 Thread Jim Walker
Stephen Lau wrote: >> I've not tried Indiana, but have had similar problems >> on my macbook pro >> for SXDE. I did get it installed by using the >> diskutil under Macos to >> create the partitions, For some reason I needed a >> small amount in a >> partition between the MacOS and the Solaris on

Re: [indiana-discuss] Proposal for Hardware Driver Detection Project (HDD)

2008-02-22 Thread Jim Walker
Dave Miner wrote: > Yan Xue Yang wrote: >> Proposal for Hardware Driver Detection Project (HDD) >> >> Purpose: The primary purpose of this tool is designed for opensolaris. >> It has the following functions: >> 1. Display device information and device driver information on the system. >> 2. Check t

Re: [indiana-discuss] my first post

2007-11-04 Thread Jim Walker
William, Thanks for your feedback! Every datapoint helps. Cheers, Jim William wrote: > I downloaded "in-preview" last night and tried it this morning and it works > on my hp dv6000 laptop. This is my first time with Solaris of any kind but > things just worked. I don't know how to copy any i

Re: [indiana-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] [ogb-discuss] Indiana as the OpenSolaris xxxx distro (was Re: [smf-discuss] Review for 6608098)

2007-10-22 Thread Jim Walker
Initial participants John Plocher Sara Dornsife Teri Molini Ian Murdock Eric Boutiller Al Hopper Shawn Walker Simon Phipps Any OGB members interested? Any Indiana participants interested? Anyone else