Re: [osol-discuss] sunfreeware.com best practices

2008-04-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Ray Van Dolson wrote: It seems like a lot of the sunfreeware packages end up with a 'SMC' prefix, but maybe 'SFW' too? SunFreeware.com packages should be SMC* - SFW* packages come from the Solaris Companion CD from Sun (which is maintained by the same person as SunFreeware.com, under contract

[osol-discuss] sunfreeware.com best practices

2008-04-07 Thread Ray Van Dolson
Hopefully this isn't off-topic as I assume a lot of you use sunfreeware.com ... I'm trying to determine how to a) best identify which of my installed packages came from sunfreeware, and b) be able to track when an update is available. It seems like a lot of the sunfreeware packages end up with a

Re: [osol-discuss] sunfreeware.com best practices

2008-04-07 Thread Dennis Clarke
Hopefully this isn't off-topic as I assume a lot of you use sunfreeware.com ... I'm trying to determine how to a) best identify which of my installed packages came from sunfreeware, and b) be able to track when an update is available. It seems like a lot of the sunfreeware packages end up

Re: [osol-discuss] sunfreeware.com best practices

2008-04-07 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 02:40:20PM -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: Try the following : $ pkginfo | grep -v SUNW | grep -v CSW | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs pkginfo -l That will ignore all software from Sun and from Blastwave and then dump out the verbose ( long ) info about the package. Don't

Re: [osol-discuss] sunfreeware.com best practices

2008-04-07 Thread Emmanuel De Paepe
Good question actually. For me the most 'popular' ones from Sunfreeware are Gnuplot and Octave. For Gnuplot for instance you can find the version under /usr/local/doc/gnuplot/VERSION So I guess for most of the installed packages it should be under: /usr/local/doc This message posted from

Re: [osol-discuss] sunfreeware.com best practices

2008-04-07 Thread Dennis Clarke
Good question actually. For me the most 'popular' ones from Sunfreeware are Gnuplot and Octave. http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Wasn't that updated to 3.0 back in December ? dc ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] sunfreeware.com best practices

2008-04-07 Thread Emmanuel De Paepe
True but the packages for Solaris take some time before they're available. I guess it's not like Fedora for instance. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] sunfreeware.com best practices

2008-04-07 Thread Dennis Clarke
True but the packages for Solaris take some time before they're available. I guess it's not like Fedora for instance. http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/octave Released 24 Dec 2007 dc ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] sunfreeware.com best practices

2008-04-07 Thread Dennis Clarke
Thanks Dennis. Hmm, I wasn't even aware of blastwave. Maybe I should be using that for my Solaris 9 + Apache + mod_ssl setup. Just trying to avoid building stuff by hand so I can keep things up to date as automatically as possible. You could just google for open source software for

Re: [osol-discuss] sunfreeware.com best practices

2008-04-07 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 05:34:40PM -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: Thanks Dennis. Hmm, I wasn't even aware of blastwave. Maybe I should be using that for my Solaris 9 + Apache + mod_ssl setup. Just trying to avoid building stuff by hand so I can keep things up to date as automatically as

Re: [osol-discuss] sunfreeware.com best practices

2008-04-07 Thread Dennis Clarke
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 05:34:40PM -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: Thanks Dennis. Hmm, I wasn't even aware of blastwave. Maybe I should be using that for my Solaris 9 + Apache + mod_ssl setup. Just trying to avoid building stuff by hand so I can keep things up to date as automatically as

Re: [osol-discuss] sunfreeware.com best practices

2008-04-07 Thread Emmanuel De Paepe
Oops, seems like I missed that one. So then it's Sunfreeware sticking with an older version. However they've just updated Gnuplot. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] sunfreeware.com best practices

2008-04-07 Thread Dennis Clarke
Oops, seems like I missed that one. So then it's Sunfreeware sticking with an older version. However they've just updated Gnuplot. gnuplot 4.0.23 is in test phase at : http://www.blastwave.org/testing/index_cron.html No promise on functionality however. Not until it goes through a pile