Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 9/16/10 2:00 PM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Richard L. Hamiltonrlha...@smart.net wrote: Well...there are probably people that prefer for example * traditional Solaris command set default vs GNU command set default This is why few Solaris users did accept Indiana.

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-17 Thread Matthias Pfützner
Alan, You (Alan Coopersmith) wrote: On 9/16/10 2:00 PM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Richard L. Hamiltonrlha...@smart.net wrote: Well...there are probably people that prefer for example * traditional Solaris command set default vs GNU command set default This is why few

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-17 Thread Casper . Dik
* SVR4 packages vs IPS vs whatever packaging scheme Nexenta uses (there too there's a problem, inasmuch as other tools like beadm and zonecfg are also involved, although I gather it ought to be possible to come up with different versions of them for each packaging scheme that some distro or

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-17 Thread Jyri J. Virkki
Once upon a time Calum Benson wrote: Anyone who wanted to was always free to contribute such packages to OpenSolaris, via spec-files-extra and later, Source Juicer. Not many people ever did, and of those, not everyone subsequently kept them up to date. If OpenIndiana can find the people to

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-17 Thread Matthias Pfützner
I (Matthias Pfützner) wrote (to many typoes, so here I go again...): It depends, on who you set up your $PATH... I, for one, do it, be appending, how by It's to early in the morning... Brain not completly working at full speed yet..

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-17 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi, On 16.09.10 19:18, Jason wrote: I think part of that was the rather excessive amount of work just to get a usable build environment to be able to do that, Installation of SXCE or OSol and running one script was the rather excessive amount of work? Even before the script for installing

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-17 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Cloning somewhat helps with the disk footprint, but the savings there will get lower over time as more and more binaries are upgraded. We clearly have to work on that. The memory saving of sparse root zones was nothing to sniff at. So a share-able executable, library, or object had

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-17 Thread Casper . Dik
Cloning somewhat helps with the disk footprint, but the savings there will get lower over time as more and more binaries are upgraded. We clearly have to work on that. The memory saving of sparse root zones was nothing to sniff at. So a share-able executable, library, or object had

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-17 Thread Joerg Schilling
Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com wrote: SVR4 packages support sparse zones, IPS does not. OpenSolaris doesn't have sparse zones, so there nothing to support. Looks like you are confusing OpenSolaris with Indiana. If I remember the threads at the time, they were (rightly) considered

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-17 Thread Calum Benson
On 17 Sep 2010, at 08:32, Jyri J. Virkki wrote: Once upon a time Calum Benson wrote: Anyone who wanted to was always free to contribute such packages to OpenSolaris, via spec-files-extra and later, Source Juicer. Not many people ever did, and of those, not everyone subsequently kept them

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Ok, I understand your point. And it is cool with you being first with several things. I am only asking if all distros cooperated on one single distro, would it not be better if there was only one official community distro. It does not matter to people if it is Schillix or OpenIndiana, as

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread Ashish Nabira
I just have a small suggestion. Whatever distribution we make, please make available packages like FreeBSD ports or Debian. That's the only way we can make it more popular with Admins and new users. Ashish Nabira Enterprise IT Architect Email ashish.nab...@sun.com On 16-Sep-10, at 1:28 PM,

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
I just have a small suggestion. Whatever distribution we make, please make available packages like FreeBSD ports or Debian. That's the only way we can make it more popular with Admins and new users. Ashish Nabira Enterprise IT Architect Email ashish.nab...@sun.com Are you talking

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread Joerg Schilling
Richard L. Hamilton rlha...@smart.net wrote: Well...there are probably people that prefer for example * traditional Solaris command set default vs GNU command set default This is why few Solaris users did accept Indiana. * SVR4 packages vs IPS vs whatever packaging scheme Nexenta uses

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread ken mays
Nabira nab...@sun.com wrote: From: Ashish Nabira nab...@sun.com Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana? To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Date: Thursday, September 16, 2010, 4:18 AM I just have a small suggestion. Whatever distribution we make, please make

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread Ashish Nabira
I am talking about the number of pakages which are installable from repositories. Debian,Ubuntu have more than 30,000 pakages. I know most of them are not used by Server Admins. But new unix users do find it difficult to install pakages by compiling. For example in Ubuntu, you can try the

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread Aurelien Larcher
I am talking about the number of pakages which are installable from repositories. Debian,Ubuntu have more than 30,000 pakages. But it should be mentioned that among those 30,000 packages, 10,000+ of them are terminal audio players (5682 to be exact and none of them is fully functional), or

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread Ashish Nabira
Hi Michael; I agree with you completely. I have made it work like that only. But the point is you have to go to different repos for this. I have lot of such examples, which I finished testing on Ubuntu and then deployed it on Opensolaris, with help from Sunfreeware, blastwave etc. New

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread Calum Benson
On 16 Sep 2010, at 14:04, Ashish Nabira wrote: Lets add those important packages to repositories and make OpenIndiana popular to newbiesThat's one good way to make it popular . Anyone who wanted to was always free to contribute such packages to OpenSolaris, via spec-files-extra and

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread Kent Watsen
Shouldn't the same packages Oracle publishes for Solaris 11 work on OpenIndiana? - would all the dependencies break? Is the concern that Oracle won't publish desktop-oriented packages? - the examples given before were more server-oriented... Thanks, Kent

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread Jason
I think part of that was the rather excessive amount of work just to get a usable build environment to be able to do that, or in the case of jucr, its incredible opaqueness which made doing anything with it incredibly painful (I finally gave up myself). If you make things hard (or take a lot more

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread Shawn Walker
On 09/16/10 05:00 AM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Richard L. Hamiltonrlha...@smart.net wrote: Well...there are probably people that prefer for example * traditional Solaris command set default vs GNU command set default This is why few Solaris users did accept Indiana.

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread Dmitry G. Kozhinov
Shouldn't the same packages Oracle publishes for Solaris 11 work on OpenIndiana? - would all the dependencies break? OpenIndiana project should maintain it's own package repository. Solaris 11 packages may occur incompatible - who knows how Oracle will modify the IPS system? An will they drop

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread Shawn Walker
On 09/16/10 11:03 AM, Dmitry G. Kozhinov wrote: ... OpenIndiana project should maintain it's own package repository. Solaris 11 packages may occur incompatible - who knows how Oracle will modify the IPS system? An will they drop us IPS source code after Solaris 11 is released? The source for

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread Joerg Schilling
Calum Benson calum.ben...@oracle.com wrote: On 16 Sep 2010, at 14:04, Ashish Nabira wrote: Lets add those important packages to repositories and make OpenIndiana popular to newbiesThat's one good way to make it popular . Anyone who wanted to was always free to contribute such

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread Charles Seeger
+-- Shawn Walker wrote (Thu, 16-Sep-2010, 10:50 -0700): | | The choice to not support sparse zones was a decision made by the zones | team; not by the packaging team. Out of curiosity and before I go searching, is the rationale for this choice publically available in an ARC case or

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread Joerg Schilling
Shawn Walker shawn.wal...@oracle.com wrote: On 09/16/10 05:00 AM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Richard L. Hamiltonrlha...@smart.net wrote: Well...there are probably people that prefer for example * traditional Solaris command set default vs GNU command set default This

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread Kyle McDonald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9/16/2010 2:03 PM, Dmitry G. Kozhinov wrote: Shouldn't the same packages Oracle publishes for Solaris 11 work on OpenIndiana? - would all the dependencies break? OpenIndiana project should maintain it's own package repository. Solaris 11

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread Shawn Walker
On 09/16/10 11:38 AM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Calum Bensoncalum.ben...@oracle.com wrote: On 16 Sep 2010, at 14:04, Ashish Nabira wrote: Lets add those important packages to repositories and make OpenIndiana popular to newbiesThat's one good way to make it popular .

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread Shawn Walker
On 09/16/10 12:03 PM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Shawn Walkershawn.wal...@oracle.com wrote: On 09/16/10 05:00 AM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Richard L. Hamiltonrlha...@smart.net wrote: Well...there are probably people that prefer for example * traditional

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread Shawn Walker
On 09/16/10 12:03 PM, see...@cise.ufl.edu wrote: +-- Shawn Walker wrote (Thu, 16-Sep-2010, 10:50 -0700): | | The choice to not support sparse zones was a decision made by the zones | team; not by the packaging team. Out of curiosity and before I go searching, is the rationale for this

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread Calum Benson
On 16 Sep 2010, at 19:38, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Calum Benson calum.ben...@oracle.com wrote: Anyone who wanted to was always free to contribute such packages to OpenSolaris, via spec-files-extra and later, Source Juicer. Not many people ever did, and of those, not

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread Joerg Schilling
Shawn Walker shawn.wal...@oracle.com wrote: On 09/16/10 12:03 PM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Shawn Walkershawn.wal...@oracle.com wrote: On 09/16/10 05:00 AM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Richard L. Hamiltonrlha...@smart.net wrote: Well...there are

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread Shawn Walker
On 09/16/10 01:14 PM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Shawn Walkershawn.wal...@oracle.com wrote: On 09/16/10 12:03 PM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Shawn Walkershawn.wal...@oracle.com wrote: On 09/16/10 05:00 AM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote:

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread Pavel Heimlich
OTOH I assume it might be possible to either base Korona on OI and/or adopt the kde4 packages into the OI repository. I tried to install our packages to a fresh OI install and it went just fine. A screenshot here: http://blog.hajma.cz/2010/09/kde4-on-openindiana.html -- This message posted

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread Ian Collins
On 09/17/10 07:03 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: Shawn Walkershawn.wal...@oracle.com wrote: On 09/16/10 05:00 AM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Richard L. Hamiltonrlha...@smart.net wrote: Well...there are probably people that prefer for example * traditional

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread Ian Collins
On 09/17/10 12:00 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: Richard L. Hamiltonrlha...@smart.net wrote: Well...there are probably people that prefer for example * traditional Solaris command set default vs GNU command set default This is why few Solaris users did accept Indiana. * SVR4

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-16 Thread Charles Seeger
+-- Ian Collins wrote (Fri, 17-Sep-2010, 14:28 +1200): | | OpenSolaris doesn't have sparse zones, so there nothing to support. | | If I remember the threads at the time, they were (rightly) considered | unnecessary now we use ZFS for zone roots. I have yet to find those discussions or

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-15 Thread Orvar Korvar
Ok, I understand your point. And it is cool with you being first with several things. I am only asking if all distros cooperated on one single distro, would it not be better if there was only one official community distro. It does not matter to people if it is Schillix or OpenIndiana, as long

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-15 Thread Gary
On 9/14/10, Orvar Korvar wrote: I think OpenSolaris community is not really interested in umpteen different distros, as Linux has. Only one distro is acceptable to most people. I believe. But of course, people are free to disagree. :o) I think you're preaching to the choir here. Oracle has

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Orvar Korvar knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com wrote: I am only asking if all distros cooperated on one single distro, would it not be better if there was only one official community distro. It does not matter to people if it is Schillix or OpenIndiana, as long as the distro attracts many

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-15 Thread Paul Kölle
Am 15.09.2010 08:55, schrieb Gary: On 9/14/10, Orvar Korvar wrote: I think OpenSolaris community is not really interested in umpteen different distros, as Linux has. Only one distro is acceptable to most people. I believe. But of course, people are free to disagree. :o) I think you're

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-15 Thread Pavel Heimlich
Why dont some OpenSolaris distros join forces and work on OpenIndiana, and at a later point digress? Schillix, Nexenta, Milax, Korona, etc - wouldnt it be good if some projects merged with OpenIndiana? Korona is not a distro (ok, the definition of a distro has changed since the advent of

[osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-14 Thread Orvar Korvar
Why dont some OpenSolaris distros join forces and work on OpenIndiana, and at a later point digress? Schillix, Nexenta, Milax, Korona, etc - wouldnt it be good if some projects merged with OpenIndiana? Or, are there no interests in merging? If OpenIndiana got all those resources, it would be

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-14 Thread Gary
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Orvar Korvar wrote: Why dont some OpenSolaris distros join forces and work on OpenIndiana, and at a later point digress? What you're suggesting is already happening with Illumos which is at the core of OpenIndiana. Others here may be able to chime in with more

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
Orvar Korvar knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com wrote: Why dont some OpenSolaris distros join forces and work on OpenIndiana, and at a later point digress? Schillix, Nexenta, Milax, Korona, etc - wouldnt it be good if some projects merged with OpenIndiana? Or, are there no interests in