Re: [osol-discuss] /usr/src in 2010.03 or later?

2010-04-03 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: [..]> If one were to produce a self-hosting source distro, I think it should > take maximum advantage of zfs snapshots/clones; that would allow > easily reverting any change that turned out not to work (provided it > didn't corrupt the zpo

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-03 Thread HeCSa
Hi, Uros! I totally agree with this point of view. Let's see it in this way...it's more a reality than a point of view. I (we) sent emails to the "assigned" Oracle employee to deal with the communities, but didn't receive an answer in more than a month, or maybe more time. The results of our ema

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-03 Thread Uros Nedic
Hello Volker, Officially they published that they will continue to support Java, OpenSolaris, NetBeans,Oracle and Independent Oracle UGs but reality is completely different. They do notinteract with us (Leaders, at least) as Teresa did all the time, they do not send *any*promotional material,

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-03 Thread Volker A. Brandt
Hello Uros! > their strategic decisionis not to support OSUGs anymore. Can you tell us where Oracle published this strategic decision? Thanks -- Volker -- Volker A. Brandt Consulting and Support for Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-03 Thread Peter Jones
I have a question..I complete boot failure (hung on blue startup) on b133 updated...could not figure out what happened.However looking back I was using a flash drive usb which I removed before it failed.Could this be the same bug? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-03 Thread Volker A. Brandt
> This is getting ridiculous, it's been a week, least they could do is > reassure us that they haven't given up on OpenSolaris. Oh come on. Build 135 was tagged a month ago: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/onnv-notify/2010-March/011579.html Build 136 was tagged two weeks ago: http://mai

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-03 Thread Uros Nedic
Obviously they do not think that we (Community) are important for them at all. ORACLE is commercial company and this is one huge mistake for them sincecommunity and open source oriented development would be dominant businessmodel in future. I also regret that I cannot advise people in my country

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-03 Thread Don Quichotte
This is getting ridiculous, it's been a week, least they could do is reassure us that they haven't given up on OpenSolaris. I don't mind the delay but come on Oracle, throw us a friggin' bone here. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ openso

Re: [osol-discuss] Save OpenSolaris (according to Katonda)

2010-04-03 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Charles Hedrick wrote: > I understand that this is largely FUD. But can someone confirm that there is > a copy of all of the  open-source code someplace not under Oracle control? At > this point the only precaution I'd take is to make sure that there is. Yes. I

Re: [osol-discuss] failed to add publisher?

2010-04-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
solarg wrote: > hello all, > on os20xx.xx, b134, i have a problem with publishers. I want to add one > and it fails: > $ pfexec pkg set-publisher -O http://ips.enst.fr:1 ips.enst.fr > pkg set-publisher: > One or more of the repository origin(s) listed below contains package > data for localhost

Re: [osol-discuss] Save OpenSolaris (according to Katonda)

2010-04-03 Thread Charles Hedrick
I understand that this is largely FUD. But can someone confirm that there is a copy of all of the open-source code someplace not under Oracle control? At this point the only precaution I'd take is to make sure that there is. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-04-03 Thread Charles Hedrick
If we're overreacting, it's based on Oracle's inability to clarify. We're working with our sales people. They understand that our current reading of the license is going to cause us to move a lot of our activity to Linux, and non-Sun hardware. Thus they have every incentive to clarify, if that's

Re: [osol-discuss] Where can I find info on the gate project? or how to fix: File "setup.py", line 1, in from setuptools import setup, find_packages

2010-04-03 Thread Shawn Walker
[moving to pkg-discuss; opensolaris-discuss BCC'd] On 04/ 2/10 03:44 PM, Henry Pepper wrote: Hi I'm failing to build the 'gate' application following the instructions in: - http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+indiana/constructor_notes - http://blogs.sun.com/sunwg11nprg/entry/how_to

Re: [osol-discuss] /usr/src in 2010.03 or later?

2010-04-03 Thread Farid Hajji
> It would however be nice to be able to match up a > source and binary distro > easily, whether to make changes, or simply to know > one was looking at the > right source so one correctly understood the dtrace > fbt probes. Yes, that was THE main reasons I'm looking for a /usr/src tree synchroniz

Re: [osol-discuss] onnv 135 MIA? Skipped or delayed? (knock, knock) Is this Mic turned on?...

2010-04-03 Thread Robert Milkowski
On 02/04/2010 20:48, Brent Jones wrote: We're about ready to wipe the machines, and switch to RHEL or FreeBSD. At least those operating systems support -DELETING FILES-! No, they don't - at least not with dedup. -- Robert Milkowski http://milek.blogspot.com _

[osol-discuss] failed to add publisher?

2010-04-03 Thread solarg
hello all, on os20xx.xx, b134, i have a problem with publishers. I want to add one and it fails: $ pfexec pkg set-publisher -O http://ips.enst.fr:1 ips.enst.fr pkg set-publisher: One or more of the repository origin(s) listed below contains package data for localhost; not ips.enst.fr: htt

[osol-discuss] Are mem-free Infiniband cards supported by OS (yet)?

2010-04-03 Thread Justin Clift
Hi all, Does anyone know if Open Solaris supports the InfiniHost III Ex mem-free cards yet? (ie MT 25208) Solaris seems to have support for those with memory on board, but not the mem free ones. Development work seems to have been done last year to get the mem free ones functioning, but I'