Re: [osol-discuss] The pool is formatted using an older on-disk format.

2008-10-22 Thread Paweł Tęcza
[EMAIL PROTECTED] pisze: If I'll upgrade the pool under my new BE, then I'm not able to boot my laptop using old BE, because it doesn't support new version of ZFS. Am I right? If the old BE doesn't support the new ZFS version, then indeed you can't boot. Hi, Thanks a lot for the

[osol-discuss] Dynamic resource pool mechanism only on SPARC architectures?

2008-10-22 Thread Davide Vanoni
Hi all! I'm a newbie of OpenSolaris world and I'm trying to understand how resource allocation mechanism works. In particular I didn't understand what's the difference between dynamic reconfiguration (DR) and dynamic resource pool mechanism? Do they work only on SPARC architectures? Thanks!

Re: [osol-discuss] Dynamic resource pool mechanism only on SPARC architectures?

2008-10-22 Thread Danilo Poccia
Hi Davide, Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR) is a hardware+software feature of midrange and high-end SPARC systems and so it is available on SPARC only. With DR you can add or remove to a domain a physical board (4 CPUs with memory) on E3800-E25Ks or even a single CPU (with memory) on a M-series

Re: [osol-discuss] Dynamic resource pool mechanism only on SPARC architectures?

2008-10-22 Thread Davide Vanoni
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Re: [osol-discuss] test farm server interface released

2008-10-22 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Perfect. Slight suggestion (I'm trying it out right now with an ON build for a bugfix I've taken far too long to get taken care of) -- if DNS isn't going to be used, could at least /etc/host entries be entered for certain opensolaris servers (at least hg.opensolaris.org)? Since many projects

Re: [osol-discuss] test farm server interface released

2008-10-22 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perfect. Slight suggestion (I'm trying it out right now with an ON build for a bugfix I've taken far too long to get taken care of) -- if DNS isn't going to be used, could at least /etc/host entries be entered for

Re: [osol-discuss] test farm server interface released

2008-10-22 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Martin Bochnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perfect. Slight suggestion (I'm trying it out right now with an ON build for a bugfix I've taken far too long to get taken care of) -- if DNS

Re: [osol-discuss] test farm server interface released

2008-10-22 Thread Martin Bochnig
To checkout do: ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/hg/generic_distro_bulk password is: OpenSolarisIsGreat (both for pull and push access!) Correction, I forgot to add hg clone to it after I did the copypaste, the correct command is of course: To checkout do: hg clone ssh://[EMAIL

Re: [osol-discuss] test farm server interface released

2008-10-22 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perfect. Slight suggestion (I'm trying it out right now with an ON build for a bugfix I've taken far too long to get taken care of) -- if DNS isn't going to be used, could at least /etc/host entries be entered

Re: [osol-discuss] test farm server interface released

2008-10-22 Thread Martin Bochnig
That looks approximately like what I was thinking of. How generic is it? Can it build e.g. Indiana as well as your It is _extremely_ generic. However, it's not complete. Right now all it does is fetching and building on sfw fox-gate conary Next to be integrated are caiman, the

Re: [osol-discuss] test farm server interface released

2008-10-22 Thread Martin Bochnig
It does *not* create any actual distro yet. All my scripts to prepare a root proto dir and generate an iso are still on different hdds, but not inside the distro bulk gate yet, I lost some time with getting the most recent svn snapshot of conary to work again.

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal -- Port to MIPS architecture

2008-10-22 Thread Javier O. Augusto
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 05:03 -0700, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: As to whether one really wants to spend more money that ends up in the hands of the Chinese military, that's another story... Give us a break, we are discussing about TECHNOLOGY MIPS is a great architecture, way to go!!!

Re: [osol-discuss] What type of memory

2008-10-22 Thread Martin Bochnig
On a SPARC's OBP prompt you could check that. On x86 the only way to check at which freq. your bus'es and mem are running is the BIOS. But it won't tell you which modules are inside. You have to open up your chassis, I would think. You could boot into Windows and try SiSoft Sandra, although even

Re: [osol-discuss] What type of memory

2008-10-22 Thread Martin Bochnig
What does prtdiag(1M) give you in verbose mode? On 10/22/08, Martin Bochnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a SPARC's OBP prompt you could check that. On x86 the only way to check at which freq. your bus'es and mem are running is the BIOS. But it won't tell you which modules are inside. You

Re: [osol-discuss] What type of memory

2008-10-22 Thread Rob Johnston
This sort of information *may* be encoded in the SMBIOS records. Unfortunately, the quality and completeness of SMBIOS data varies quite a bit from vendor to vendor. You can dump the SMBIOS records for DIMMs (if present) with the following command: % smbios -t SMB_TYPE_MEMDEVICE rob Mike

Re: [osol-discuss] What type of memory

2008-10-22 Thread Mike DeMarco
Thanks, I will check this tonight when I get home. This sort of information *may* be encoded in the SMBIOS records. Unfortunately, the quality and completeness of SMBIOS data varies quite a bit from vendor to vendor. You can dump the SMBIOS records for DIMMs (if present) with the

Re: [osol-discuss] What type of memory

2008-10-22 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Rob Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This sort of information *may* be encoded in the SMBIOS records. Unfortunately, the quality and completeness of SMBIOS data varies quite a bit from vendor to vendor. You can dump the SMBIOS records for DIMMs (if present)

Re: [osol-discuss] The future of the IPS system

2008-10-22 Thread Mike Meyer
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:16:41 +0100 Calum Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19 Oct 2008, at 13:11, Duncan Paterson wrote: What are the chances that this will one day rival apt for selection, frequency of updates and speed. It will happen a lot quicker once we have repositories in

Re: [osol-discuss] The future of the IPS system

2008-10-22 Thread Fredrich Maney
I'd much rather see a ports type implementation than an rpm implementation - particularly if it includes the sources. fpsm On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:16:41 +0100 Calum Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19 Oct 2008, at 13:11,

Re: [osol-discuss] The future of the IPS system

2008-10-22 Thread Shawn Walker
The most likely implementation will probably be what the pkgbuild folks are providing, which is very much like rpmbuild. Fredrich Maney wrote: I'd much rather see a ports type implementation than an rpm implementation - particularly if it includes the sources. fpsm On Mon, Oct 20, 2008

Re: [osol-discuss] The future of the IPS system

2008-10-22 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
I'd much rather see a ports type implementation than an rpm implementation - particularly if it includes the sources. fpsm Sources available? Darn right - some of the licenses require that, too. Build from source as the normal method of installation? That, I think is too slow for most

Re: [osol-discuss] The future of the IPS system

2008-10-22 Thread Shawn Walker
Mike Meyer wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:49:36 PDT Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd much rather see a ports type implementation than an rpm implementation - particularly if it includes the sources. Sources available? Darn right - some of the licenses require that, too.

Re: [osol-discuss] The future of the IPS system

2008-10-22 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would venture to guess that a significant majority of users will never need to or want to recompile or alter the software as you suggest. They're going to want a stable, tested version of the software, and that means a

Re: [osol-discuss] The future of the IPS system

2008-10-22 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Martin Bochnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would venture to guess that a significant majority of users will never need to or want to recompile or alter the software as you suggest.

Re: [osol-discuss] The future of the IPS system

2008-10-22 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:16:03 +0200 Martin Bochnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Martin Bochnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [osol-discuss] The future of the IPS system

2008-10-22 Thread Martin Bochnig
# LD_PRELOAD=/tmp/y/a.out conary update --resove tuxpaint usage: conary update [+][-]pkgname[=version][[flavor]]* changeset* Update or install software on the system options: Update Options: --exact-flavors Only match troves whose flavors match exactly --from-file=FROM-FILE

Re: [osol-discuss] The future of the IPS system

2008-10-22 Thread Martin Bochnig
The error msg came, because options need to go last into the cmd line: # LD_PRELOAD=/tmp/y/a.out conary update tuxpaint --resolve ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org