[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: OpenSolaris Ports System

2006-10-10 Thread Josh Howard
No one specifically mentioned pkgbuild, (http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net/) which seems to be making some progress in terms of keeping up-to-date with software. It has the advantage of building off of rpm spec files, which are becoming more common in software distributions, support whatever compi

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: OpenSolaris Ports System

2006-10-10 Thread Chris Steinke
All of your points are quite valid and I have issues with them as well. But I was thinking something 'similiar' to but not exactly the current Gentoo portage system. I was thinking more along the lines of a super charged portage system with tools written in C or C++ and support for choosing w

[osol-discuss] Re: Proposal: OpenSolaris Ports System

2006-10-10 Thread Eric Boutilier
Thanks, Steven. Your project proposal has seconds. I'll contact you offline to get you set up. On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Steven Stallion wrote: Greetings all, One of the largest headaches of running a desktop solaris box is the lack of support for source built/binary packages. Blastwave.org is the c

Re: [osol-discuss] Community Proposal: HPC Developer

2006-10-10 Thread Eric Boutilier
Thanks, Brad. Your community proposal has seconds, including one from a CAB member. I'll contact you offline to get you set up. Eric On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Brad Lewis wrote: I propose adding an OpenSolaris HPC Developer Community. The goal of this community is to promote the use of OpenSolaris i

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: OpenSolaris Ports System

2006-10-10 Thread Steve Stallion
Danek,Thats great to hear. What else needs to happen make this project official?SteveOn 10/10/06, Danek Duvall < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 07:28:19AM -0500, Steve Stallion wrote: > I most definitely agree - however, I would like to see the project get an> actual start before

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Community Proposal: HPC Developer

2006-10-10 Thread Casper . Dik
>This discussion seems to have run it's course. > >I count 13 positive responses to my initial proposal and 0 negative. > >Can I get a CAB approval? Yes, +1 from me. Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Live Upgrade / SSL Certificates / Firefox

2006-10-10 Thread Haik Aftandilian
After a live upgrade from build 41 to build 47 (via Solaris Express Community Edition), whenever I visit an SSL site in Firefox, I get the "Website Certified by an Unknown Authority" Firefox message. "Unable to verify the identity of blahblah.com as a trusted site." This occurs for any https sit

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: OpenSolaris Ports System

2006-10-10 Thread Steven Stallion
Dave,This may be ignorance on my part, but AFAIK, there are no TCL bindings to sun api's. In my experience, more developers (including myself) are more proficient in C than TCL. While TCL is in /usr/sfw, I would like to see the ports system available to any solaris user whether or not they have the

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Super-Smack on Solaris 10 SPARC

2006-10-10 Thread Frank Mash
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/install/bench/super-smack-1.3] ./configure --with-mysql checking for a BSD-compatible install... ./install-sh -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for working aclocal... missing checking for working autoconf.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Community Proposal: HPC Developer

2006-10-10 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Oct 10, 2006, at 4:56 PM, Brad Lewis wrote: This discussion seems to have run it's course. I count 13 positive responses to my initial proposal and 0 negative. Can I get a CAB approval? If it's not good enough for the CAB people than drop me a note, I can provide space and bandwidth for

[osol-discuss] Solaris-related activities at SC06?

2006-10-10 Thread Dale Ghent
For the HPC interests here... I'm attending SC06 in Tampa in November and am wondering if there will be any Solaris/Sun-related activities going on outside of the conference. I know of the Sun HPC forum which is happening earlier in the week, but unfortunately that squarely conflicts with

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Community Proposal: HPC Developer

2006-10-10 Thread Dale Ghent
FWIW, add another +1 to the list from me. On Oct 10, 2006, at 10:56 AM, Brad Lewis wrote: This discussion seems to have run it's course. I count 13 positive responses to my initial proposal and 0 negative. Can I get a CAB approval? This message posted from opensolaris.org _

[osol-discuss] Re: Community Proposal: HPC Developer

2006-10-10 Thread Brad Lewis
This discussion seems to have run it's course. I count 13 positive responses to my initial proposal and 0 negative. Can I get a CAB approval? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensol

[osol-discuss] Solaris 10 / ZFS file system major/minor number

2006-10-10 Thread Luke Schwab
Hi, In migrating from **VM to ZFS am I going to have an issue with Major/Minor numbers with NFS mounts? Take the following scenario. 1. NFS clients are connected to an active NFS server that has SAN shared storage between the active and standby nodes in a cluster. 2. The NFS clients are using t

[osol-discuss] ZFS file system create/export question

2006-10-10 Thread Luke Schwab
Hi, I am wandering HOW ZFS ensures that a storage pool isn't imported by two machines at one time? Does it stamp the disks the hostID or hostName? Below is a snipplet from the ZFS Admin Guide. It appears that this can be overwritten with import -f. importing a pool that is currently in use b

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Ports System

2006-10-10 Thread Steve Stallion
Erast,I am more than willing to develop and support this project, however it will depend on the rest of the community to make use of it. I think that would be a good goal to have ultimately. I have had a couple of ideas to support specific dist revisions of the ports repository, which would make of

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: OpenSolaris Ports System

2006-10-10 Thread Steven Stallion
I have. There are a few problems I have found using portage. I'll list them below: * Python based (again, would require additional packages not part of the base install to use) * USE flags hinder more than help. For example, if you have a global USE set to include GTK+ support and not QT, then

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: OpenSolaris Ports System

2006-10-10 Thread Steve Stallion
Frank,I most definitely agree - however, I would like to see the project get an actual start before these discussions commence. To be perfectly honest, Im feeling a little guilty for all the traffic I have caused on the -discuss list the last few days ;) As a side note: I have already done much of

[osol-discuss] How to enable Ultra DMA100 HDD on x86 Solais 10?

2006-10-10 Thread Trevor Maggs
Hi, I added a Seagate 40GB Ultra DMA100 HDD to my older x86 ASUS motherboard. How do I make Solaris 10 see the Ultra DMA100 device? I tried to run devfsadm but it would not work. The ULtra DMA100 HDD is connected to another ULTRA DMA100 IDE connector on the motherboard. The other HDD which is

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: OpenSolaris Ports System

2006-10-10 Thread Frank van der Linden
I think a good start would be to write up an overview of the existing systems out there, e.g. a list of features and how they compare. Then have a list of features which the OpenSolaris system should have. As for pkgsrc, which was mentioned: it did originate in NetBSD, but I think a number of

[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris Interactive install fails to find DVD

2006-10-10 Thread Richard Skelton
> Hi, > I have found that with nv47 x86 the "Solaris > Interactive (default)" fails to find the DVD with the > error:- > The disc you inserted is the incorrect Solaris OS > CD/DVD. Please try again. > If I choose :- > 4 Solaris Interactive Text (Console session) > > The install works fine. > > C