Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Are you ready for VPN on the OS? vpnc and patch for OS people.

2005-07-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This only contains a rough description in prosa but no build system. For GPL'd software, it violates the GPL as the build scripts are not available. I think you are talking about this text from GPLv2 The source code for a work means the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Are you ready for VPN on the OS? vpnc and patch for OS people.

2005-07-21 Thread Joerg Schilling
Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 14:04, Chris Ricker wrote: creating a mysql-4.1 pkg from scratch. Or what if you want the same version that Sun shipped, but just need it compiled with different options? That's trivial on Linux distros, not so trivial on

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Are you ready for VPN on the OS? vpnc and patch for OS people.

2005-07-21 Thread David Lindt
Ginnie, I've forwarded a few parts of this thread to the writer for the Application Packaging Developer's Guide. Once you've reviewed this information, I'd like to see what we could do to get the information into the relevant docs. Another option is this information could be written up as a

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Are you ready for VPN on the OS? vpnc and patch for OS people.

2005-07-21 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 12:33:41PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: This only contains a rough description in prosa but no build system. For GPL'd software, it violates the GPL as the build scripts are not available. We're tossing around some proposals for fixing[0] this as part of making

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Are you ready for VPN on the OS? vpnc and patch for OS people.

2005-07-20 Thread Chris Ricker
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Glenn Lagasse wrote: Now, if you packaged up your custom built software into Solaris packages, your maintenance for 100+ machines goes down. You have a build machine, that runs whatever version of Solaris that is running on the rest of your machines, you build your

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Are you ready for VPN on the OS? vpnc and patch for OS people.

2005-07-20 Thread Darren J Moffat
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 14:04, Chris Ricker wrote: creating a mysql-4.1 pkg from scratch. Or what if you want the same version that Sun shipped, but just need it compiled with different options? That's trivial on Linux distros, not so trivial on Solaris Thats what the SUNWmysqlS package is

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Are you ready for VPN on the OS? vpnc and patch for OS people.

2005-07-20 Thread Virginia Wray
Hi David - I'm a tech writer at Sun. I'm going to review this information and get back to you about adding this procedure to the docs.sun.com documentation. Thanks, Ginnie David J. Orman wrote: That feedback was excellent, that was extremely helpful. I'm sure it would help a lot of other

[osol-discuss] Re: Are you ready for VPN on the OS? vpnc and patch for OS people.

2005-07-19 Thread UNIX admin
and you could post a howto, instead of docs.sun.com? Most of the documentation on http://docs.sun.com/ is in a step-by-step format, meaning that the documentation contains some preliminary introduction to the subject matter, and the rest is just step-by-step HOWTO. This is also the case with

[osol-discuss] Re: Are you ready for VPN on the OS? vpnc and patch for OS people.

2005-07-18 Thread UNIX admin
So, more the OS becomes my main desktop, more I want from it. I was using the other machine to connect to my work, but it was a hassle. So, I made VPNC work on OS with some minor (may be not that minor, some issues took me a long time to track) tweaks here and there. There was no need to