Re: [osol-discuss] newbie: strange prob on initial use of blastwave.org

2009-05-03 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Shawn Walker wrote: > Martin Bochnig wrote: >> >> Hi, I believe he means, that the dependency resolution algorithm used >> by csw (in the past with pkg-get, and also now) is suboptimal (which >> is not a shame, as most others are, too). >> For example, speaking in d

Re: [osol-discuss] newbie: strange prob on initial use of

2009-05-03 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> Joerg Schilling wrote: > > For any of the dependencies, it should be obvious > that the dependencies that > > are valid for Solaris 8 need to be installed for > Solaris 11 too as any > > blastwave package need to use the other probrams > from it's own environment in > > order to behave reliably

Re: [osol-discuss] newbie: strange prob on initial use of blastwave.org

2009-05-03 Thread Shawn Walker
Martin Bochnig wrote: Hi, I believe he means, that the dependency resolution algorithm used by csw (in the past with pkg-get, and also now) is suboptimal (which is not a shame, as most others are, too). For example, speaking in directed graph language (#0), Blastwave doesn't ensure that cycles ar

Re: [osol-discuss] Userability request to make the system more user friendly

2009-05-03 Thread Shawn Walker
Peter Jones wrote: I am reading the numerous articles giving reasons why people find it difficult to adopt new operating systems..one reason is language...to be more precise its language that the average user recognises.This may sound common sense but the average user may not understand everyd

Re: [osol-discuss] Userability request to make the system more user friendly

2009-05-03 Thread Martin Bochnig
no as soon as ips is as stable as it should (and will) be, then it will be good. but changing language is for Mac'ies. But even after changes like that and colorful flower-icons on the desktop, I doubt OS would win the minds and hearts of Hollywood. So forget about getting free indirect backgroun

[osol-discuss] Userability request to make the system more user friendly

2009-05-03 Thread Peter Jones
I am reading the numerous articles giving reasons why people find it difficult to adopt new operating systems..one reason is language...to be more precise its language that the average user recognises.This may sound common sense but the average user may not understand everyday technical speak...

Re: [osol-discuss] How to configure xvnc-inetd for multiple clients

2009-05-03 Thread Peter Karlsson
Ended doing my own SMF service, I've attached my manifest and method script, as well as my custom.conf. Cheers, Peter -- This message posted from opensolaris.org xvnc-server.xml Description: Binary data xvnc-server Description: Binary data custom.conf Description: Binary data __

Re: [osol-discuss] newbie: strange prob on initial use of blastwave.org

2009-05-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: > For any of the dependencies, it should be obvious that the dependencies that > are valid for Solaris 8 need to be installed for Solaris 11 too as any > blastwave package need to use the other probrams from it's own environment in > order to behave reliably. It can also r

Re: [osol-discuss] newbie: strange prob on initial use of blastwave.org

2009-05-03 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Oscar del Rio wrote: > vuthecuong wrote: >> >> I noticed that pkgutil intend to install other dependencies that they >> already installed in my machine: >> === >> bash-3.2# /opt/csw/bin/pkgutil --install nmap >> Checking catalog integrity wit

Re: [osol-discuss] newbie: strange prob on initial use of blastwave.org

2009-05-03 Thread Oscar del Rio
vuthecuong wrote: I noticed that pkgutil intend to install other dependencies that they already installed in my machine: === bash-3.2# /opt/csw/bin/pkgutil --install nmap Checking catalog integrity with gpg. gpg: 2009年05月01日 10時56分49秒 ICTにDSA鍵ID A1999E90で施された署名 gpg: “Blas

Re: [osol-discuss] newbie: strange prob on initial use of blastwave.org

2009-05-03 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Andras Barna wrote: > >> it's normal. >> blastwave "duplicates" many things > > Blastwave does not "duplicate" things but does what it needs to do. > > If Solaris did inlcude more OSS with Solaris 8, things would look different. Hi, I b

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris 0906 111a PCFS problem

2009-05-03 Thread Jürgen Keil
> Was there a bug id on his issue? Reason is if it > works ok under Windows must be checking for > reduced-cmd-support and needs to be added support for > checking levels of functionality mount PCFS from a > PDA. I found some old bugs that look quite similar 6314484 "newman 1.1 flash disk can

Re: [osol-discuss] newbie: strange prob on initial use of blastwave.org

2009-05-03 Thread Joerg Schilling
Andras Barna wrote: > it's normal. > blastwave "duplicates" many things Blastwave does not "duplicate" things but does what it needs to do. If Solaris did inlcude more OSS with Solaris 8, things would look different. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13

Re: [osol-discuss] newbie: strange prob on initial use of blastwave.org

2009-05-03 Thread Joerg Schilling
vuthecuong wrote: > I followed below link to set up my SXCE 112_snv x86 so that I can install > apps from blastwave.org. > http://www.blastwave.org/howto.html > However, forexample if I install nmap (or any other package), > I noticed that pkgutil intend to install other dependencies that they a

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris 0906 111a PCFS problem

2009-05-03 Thread John Brewer
Was there a bug id on his issue? Reason is if it works ok under Windows must be checking for reduced-cmd-support and needs to be added support for checking levels of functionality. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mai

Re: [osol-discuss] newbie: strange prob on initial use of blastwave.org

2009-05-03 Thread Andras Barna
it's normal. blastwave "duplicates" many things FYI: nmap *is* in SXCE On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 12:37 PM, vuthecuong wrote: > I followed below link to set up my SXCE 112_snv x86 so that I can install > apps from blastwave.org. > http://www.blastwave.org/howto.html > However, forexample if I instal

[osol-discuss] newbie: strange prob on initial use of blastwave.org

2009-05-03 Thread vuthecuong
I followed below link to set up my SXCE 112_snv x86 so that I can install apps from blastwave.org. http://www.blastwave.org/howto.html However, forexample if I install nmap (or any other package), I noticed that pkgutil intend to install other dependencies that they already installed in my machin

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 10/08 runs very slow when upgraded memory from 4GB to 8GB

2009-05-03 Thread Ian Collins
UNIX admin wrote: This isn't the place to ask, solaris...@yahoogroups.com is more appropriate for Solaris 10 x86 questions, please follow up there. You know, after thinking about this some more, I'm no longer sure that that is correct. OpenSolaris code base stems from Solaris 10. Do you

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 10/08 runs very slow when upgraded memory from 4GB to 8GB

2009-05-03 Thread UNIX admin
> This isn't the place to ask, > solaris...@yahoogroups.com is more > appropriate for Solaris 10 x86 questions, please > follow up there. You know, after thinking about this some more, I'm no longer sure that that is correct. OpenSolaris code base stems from Solaris 10. Do you see where I'm goin