Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Standards Base

2006-08-16 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Alex Ross wrote: Eric Boutilier wrote: On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Moinak Ghosh wrote: Eric Boutilier wrote: Wasn't there an effort between the Nexenta and Belenix teams to start a centralized, "cross-distro" project? My take was that they wanted to try and share (centralize?) cert

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Standards Base

2006-08-09 Thread Stephen Hahn
* Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-08-09 17:29]: > Eric Boutilier wrote: > > >Hmm, nice synthesis. So is the following a logical conclusion? > >With a fairly painless change to the /usr/gnu ARC > >proposal[1], we can achieve a compatibility alignment in this > >regard between Nexenta, Sol

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Standards Base

2006-08-09 Thread Alex Ross
Eric Boutilier wrote: On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Moinak Ghosh wrote: Eric Boutilier wrote: Wasn't there an effort between the Nexenta and Belenix teams to start a centralized, "cross-distro" project? My take was that they wanted to try and share (centralize?) certain source-level tasks/outputs, such a

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Standards Base

2006-08-09 Thread Darren J Moffat
Eric Boutilier wrote: Hmm, nice synthesis. So is the following a logical conclusion? With a fairly painless change to the /usr/gnu ARC proposal[1], we can achieve a compatibility alignment in this regard between Nexenta, Solaris Express (Nevada), and any other distros that also align... [1]http

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Standards Base

2006-08-08 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Moinak Ghosh wrote: Eric Boutilier wrote: Wasn't there an effort between the Nexenta and Belenix teams to start a centralized, "cross-distro" project? My take was that they wanted to try and share (centralize?) certain source-level tasks/outputs, such as having common patch d

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Standards Base

2006-08-08 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Darren J Moffat wrote: ... I'm actually starting to think that Nexenta's /usr/sun isn't that bad an idea and maybe even Solaris should have that. That would mean that I could do things like this: PATH=/usr/sun/bin:/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/bin That would mean that on Nexen

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Standards Base

2006-08-07 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Monday 07 August 2006 10:54 pm, Darren J Moffat wrote: > What about POSIX and the Single UNIX Spec why aren't they good enough ? > > Solaris already has multiple personalities: > /usr/bin > /usr/xpg4/ > /usr/xpg5/ > /usr/xpg6/ No, I'm not opposed to that at all. > Unfor

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Standards Base

2006-08-07 Thread Darren J Moffat
Alan DuBoff wrote: On Monday 07 August 2006 07:47 pm, Eric Boutilier wrote: Wasn't there an effort between the Nexenta and Belenix teams to start a centralized, "cross-distro" project? My take was that they wanted to try and share (centralize?) certain source-level tasks/outputs, such as having

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Standards Base

2006-08-07 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Eric Boutilier wrote: Wasn't there an effort between the Nexenta and Belenix teams to start a centralized, "cross-distro" project? My take was that they wanted to try and share (centralize?) certain source-level tasks/outputs, such as having common patch diffs for FOSS packages, and consolidati

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Standards Base

2006-08-07 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Monday 07 August 2006 07:47 pm, Eric Boutilier wrote: > Wasn't there an effort between the Nexenta and Belenix teams to start a > centralized, "cross-distro" project? My take was that they wanted to try > and share (centralize?) certain source-level tasks/outputs, such as having > common patch d

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Standards Base

2006-08-07 Thread Eric Boutilier
Wasn't there an effort between the Nexenta and Belenix teams to start a centralized, "cross-distro" project? My take was that they wanted to try and share (centralize?) certain source-level tasks/outputs, such as having common patch diffs for FOSS packages, and consolidating communications with up

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Standards Base

2006-08-02 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 02:00 am, Martin Man wrote: > Alan DuBoff wrote On 2006-08-02 00:07,: > > I am not sure I am proposing a new community, or just expressing myself > > with a problem that has existed and will continue to get worse, in the > > way opensource software is incorporated on Ope

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Standards Base

2006-08-02 Thread Martin Man
Hi Alan, Alan DuBoff wrote On 2006-08-02 00:07,: I am not sure I am proposing a new community, or just expressing myself with a problem that has existed and will continue to get worse, in the way opensource software is incorporated on OpenSolaris distributions. seems very similar to the thr

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Standards Base

2006-08-01 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Tuesday 01 August 2006 03:32 pm, Jasse Jansson wrote: > On Aug 2, 2006, at 12:07 AM, Alan DuBoff wrote: > > This is merely to say I think we need to have some type of > > standards base, one > > that can try to align these different distributions with Solaris in > > a way > > that will make thei

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Standards Base

2006-08-01 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Aug 2, 2006, at 12:07 AM, Alan DuBoff wrote: This is merely to say I think we need to have some type of standards base, one that can try to align these different distributions with Solaris in a way that will make their OpenSolaris distribution complimentary to Solaris and allow the user

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Standards Base

2006-08-01 Thread Alan DuBoff
I am not sure I am proposing a new community, or just expressing myself with a problem that has existed and will continue to get worse, in the way opensource software is incorporated on OpenSolaris distributions. This could be a long message, if it annoys you to read lengthly messages, please f