Re: Re[2]: [osol-discuss] b16 - ATA problems

2005-07-08 Thread Shawn Walker
red a few times already, non-debug bins will be provided in the near future, right now the build infrastructure needed to support it isn't there (what I last heard) and the person who can do that has a very long todo list at the moment I believe. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMA

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: always wondered about this

2005-07-08 Thread Shawn Walker
t exist, someone could probably write a PAM module to do it, since 'su' under Solaris uses PAM for authentication. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: always wondered about this

2005-07-09 Thread Shawn Walker
vsk'. that's freaking > scary. what did I do wrong? what's the output of the auths command when logged in as devsk -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ open

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: always wondered about this

2005-07-09 Thread Shawn Walker
being assigned to it to assume the role. Output of /usr/bin/profiles -l might be helpful too? -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: always wondered about this

2005-07-09 Thread Shawn Walker
it without assigning that role to the user you're sui'ng as, does it still let you assume the role? -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: always wondered about this

2005-07-09 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/9/05, Scott Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 08:37:57PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > > I would say you've found a bug then. Since the roles manpage claims > > Or far more likely he's done something wrong in configuring the role.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RE: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-09 Thread Shawn Walker
months ago, but Oracle still hasn't released it for Solaris x86 (as of a few days ago when I checked). As long as application providers continue to treat Solaris x86 like an illegitimate child the Solaris experience will be subpar as well for applications. -- Shawn Walker, Software and S

[osol-discuss] Oddities discovered while reading Developer's Reference

2005-07-09 Thread Shawn Walker
I had passed -d to bldenv. Additionally: * I had to manually remove the ' -O' from i386_COPTFLAG in Makefile.master so that I could build sh without optimizations to aid debugging with dbx * Source code files were read-only by default -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMA

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: always wondered about this

2005-07-09 Thread Shawn Walker
> to bring the role as close to user root as possible and without it the > behaviour is same. so, where did I mess up? I don't think user_attr changes will show up until that user has logged out and logged back in. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: always wondered about this

2005-07-09 Thread Shawn Walker
ghts. Once I logged out and back in it was fine. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] are we afftected by this?

2005-07-09 Thread Shawn Walker
ch unless it makes sense to do so. > > So wait for a package update that will be along just as soon as possible. +1 to the "Dennisnator" as always :} -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ _

Re: [osol-discuss] KDE 3.4.1 for Solaris 10 IA32/AMD32 and UltraSPARC Released

2005-07-10 Thread Shawn Walker
ilt with the SunStudio 10 compilers." No worries, I almost missed it too :} >From the sound of it, he had tons of patches as well. Ugh. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___

[osol-discuss] Re: Performance problems

2005-07-11 Thread Shawn Walker
See this post: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisx86/message/26749 -Shawn This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-11 Thread Shawn Walker
bution of your own. So, go forth, and create your bountiful distribution full of all the choices you wish to make. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing li

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-12 Thread Shawn Walker
sibly var and tmp partitions. I hate not having ready access to things I need when only '/' gets mounted during emergencies. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discu

Re: [osol-discuss] KDE 3.4.1 Solaris 10: Source Code Patches

2005-07-12 Thread Shawn Walker
nts are invalid. For those of us in countries where we cannot change the fact that they are not legal, a "legitimate" option would be greatly appreciated. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris and portage - two roadblocks and a rant...:)

2005-07-12 Thread Shawn Walker
orted here in a > separate thread but didn't get much response from people, so assuming that > everyone is a getting a jittery USB mouse and skipping in xmms during IO > loads) and I just wanted to see if the non-debug version performs any better. See this post: http://groups.yahoo

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: opensolaris and portage - two roadblocks and a rant...:)

2005-07-12 Thread Shawn Walker
please explain? I think adding something like: interrupt-priorities=9; I believe ? I would respond to the linked message asking about it... -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___

Re: [osol-discuss] genunix - a home for a grand unified software base ?

2005-07-13 Thread Shawn Walker
e while still allowing a great amount of freedom for individual distribution creators. I look forward with great anticipation to what lies ahead, because I think that I can only get better from here if foresight and planning are used as our primary tools going forward. -- Shawn Walker, S

Re: [osol-discuss] Articles

2005-07-13 Thread Shawn Walker
r own communities), but also automatically available in an aggregated and categorized form at the top level. That way when one is reading about a particular community or project they can see all that is relevant to just that project, and when browsing at the top level they have access to a wealth of i

Re: [osol-discuss] KDE 3.4.1: a small proposal

2005-07-13 Thread Shawn Walker
ers could provide mirrors. But, it would be better to me if it the "official" or "central" site was opensolaris.org, if only because it would help make it really seem like it was really *part* of the main OpenSolaris community effort. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Sys

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: opensolaris and portage - two roadblocks and a rant...:)

2005-07-13 Thread Shawn Walker
nsolation, I see the same thing on my system. Though it occurs far less often (hardly at all) if I use dtterm instead of gnome-terminal. I'm using the OSS drivers currently as well. I'll leave the gallery to make of that what they will :] I'm still not giving up my tabbed terminal th

Re: [osol-discuss] developing free software for OpenSolaris

2005-07-14 Thread Shawn Walker
er than some libraries that there are no binary distribution rights for (libm possibly?) it should be the same. What *specific* differences are there that you believe would effect this testing. I think if you identified what the *specific* issues were that would help everyone considerably. -- Shawn Walk

Re: [osol-discuss] developing free software for OpenSolaris

2005-07-14 Thread Shawn Walker
nd somewhat, but only because of assumptions. The thing is, you already know all of the problems, so wouldn't it be better for the community if you posted what they where so they could be addressed? There is no guarantee that I or others will find all of the same issues that you have found. You

Re: [osol-discuss] developing free software for OpenSolaris

2005-07-14 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/14/05, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think I understand somewhat, but only because of assumptions. The > > thing is, you already know all of the problems, so wouldn't it be > > better for the c

Re: [osol-discuss] Addressing the base-library problem (Was: Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?)

2005-07-14 Thread Shawn Walker
n discussed on this list before, many of the components of JDS are also used by Stefan's KDE builds. Plans with plans, and I haven't yet sorted all of it out. In the meantime, I'm just contributing in whatever way I can... Thanks, -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-14 Thread Shawn Walker
ar, and faster than Solaris tar. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-14 Thread Shawn Walker
://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/STARvsGNUTAR -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] freedesktop.org architecture/requirements

2005-07-14 Thread Shawn Walker
y make sense > to have jds/gnome-discuss and kde-discuss. Perhaps we share our Blog > space, and subdivide the web site as appropriate - > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop/gnome > http

Re: [osol-discuss] freedesktop.org architecture/requirements

2005-07-14 Thread Shawn Walker
uld be nice to show others that at least in "OpenSolaris land", the jihad will remain silent and "synergy" (oh my , I just used a marketing term :)) is expected. Because in the end, the members of the community are what matters not which desktop they're

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-15 Thread Shawn Walker
h too :} Though I admit, it's probably easier with what you describe... -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Future of the desktop

2005-07-15 Thread Shawn Walker
orm than > windows. > Of course it's far away from being perfect, but it's built on the most > promising base, named QT. While I respect that is your opinion, please don't start KDE vs. GNOME flamewars using inflammatory language. -- Shawn Walker, So

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Shawn Walker
cessary to build at the bare minimum or real fixes and enhancements. If the portability or correctness issue actually becomes a problem, then at that point it's time to fork. I often run into the same problem with Software that I package to run on production servers for the

Re: [osol-discuss] "... on OpenSolaris" is an oxymoron

2005-07-15 Thread Shawn Walker
uot;, only for OpenSolaris... I'm certain that SUN probably has ABI tests already internally, so that could go a long ways towards helping achieve the goal. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Future of the desktop

2005-07-15 Thread Shawn Walker
Talk about things positively, such as: "I think the build process for GNOME could be improved as currently I have issues building it." -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Crypto Code

2005-07-15 Thread Shawn Walker
12th, 2005 I think the crypto source is included now in the July 1st tarball, but isn't integrated? Unable to check at the moment... -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [blastware-discuss] [osol-discuss] Re: Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Shawn Walker
her than an industry > standard in this context. It is a *UNIX* industry standard regardless of whether it is a *Linux* industry standard, since Linux is certainly not UNIX. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Crypto Code

2005-07-15 Thread Shawn Walker
ested in any of them, it was more of a curiosity question... You've more than answered adequately. Thanks, -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Shawn Walker
using the same patches, usually differences come down to installation locations and configure options... -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Which Solaris Express CDs do I need?

2005-07-16 Thread Shawn Walker
ss CDs? You need all of them. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] "... on OpenSolaris" is an oxymoron

2005-07-16 Thread Shawn Walker
given binary redistribution rights for the pkg tools? That would help considerably with the process... -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: freedesktop.org architecture/requirements

2005-07-16 Thread Shawn Walker
you are suggesting that freedesktop.org related efforts themselves need organisation, it would seem much of these efforts are already underway inside SUN itself. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___

Re: [osol-mktg] Re: [osol-discuss] "... on OpenSolaris" is an oxymoron

2005-07-16 Thread Shawn Walker
no > simpler (or whatever the heck it was that Einstein supposedly said :-)) "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Einstein http://physics.augustana.edu/einstein.html -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusa

Re: [osol-discuss] ss20?

2005-07-16 Thread Shawn Walker
rg/pipermail/summaries/2005-May/006490.html -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Addressing the base-library problem (Was: Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?)

2005-07-17 Thread Shawn Walker
g binary redistribution rights will be sufficient. However, eventual source release is a must for long-term viability. Either that or the necessary information (API specifications) must be available so that an alternative can be implemented. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PR

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Future of the desktop

2005-07-18 Thread Shawn Walker
users to feel more at home, and some others. So, don't be quick to dismiss what's there :) The patches that are included are true value adds... -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: perf problem during nv-b18-x86 install

2005-07-18 Thread Shawn Walker
ool > > to determine whether that is the case. > > > > For example, on Solaris: > > > > 1. insert media into the drive > > 2. /etc/init.d/volmgt stop > > You do't need to stop volmgt. > > Jörg I have to on my Solaris 10 GA system Jör

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: perf problem during nv-b18-x86 install

2005-07-18 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/18/05, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 7/18/05, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > I

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: compiler cache for sun studio

2005-07-18 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/18/05, Sunil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > this to tools-discuss instead of the big list; it's > > likely to be of > > no tools-discuss here: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/index.jspa ...:( Look here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/discussions/ -- Shawn

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Future of the desktop

2005-07-19 Thread Shawn Walker
: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/darren/20050318 -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] separation of forum and mailing list

2005-07-19 Thread Shawn Walker
he FAQ :) http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/faq/website_faq/#cross-posting -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2005-07-19 Thread Shawn Walker
985 That collection of documents will explain: * System Management * User / Group Management * Client-Server Support Management * Shutdown / Startup / Reboot * Services Management * Software Management * Patch Management It should give you a good overall view of the system and the basic

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

2005-07-19 Thread Shawn Walker
realistic. Take no offense in that statement, just realise that you are going to have to spend some time spelunking through the docs. If you have some ideas on how SUN could better present the documentation, then feel free to send feedback to your SUN sales rep

Re: [osol-discuss] Problems booting on P-II 233 Notebook.

2005-07-20 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/20/05, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How may I set "verbosemode" to a value != 0 and when will > we have full sources for multiboot? I'm pretty sure verbosemode is activated by doing -v to the kernel... Just like one does -kdv... -- Shawn W

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Why I do think OpenSolaris ought to work with Debian

2005-07-20 Thread Shawn Walker
lated directory tree to install into, and actually conflict with each other location wise. Ideally, a user should be able to click a link, or download a package from disparate sources, and installation should just work. That's what happens on other systems like Windows or Mac OS X today for the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Why I do think OpenSolaris ought to work with Debian

2005-07-20 Thread Shawn Walker
certainly easier than creating Debian packages (in my personal view). Regardless of "favorite package system", I still think there's a way to at least mitigate or reduce some of the problems caused by these duplicate software stacks. It just requires some agreement and compromise am

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

2005-07-20 Thread Shawn Walker
ganizational boundaries... Is that still considered the "proper practice"? Would I be considered "evil" if I released packages without the prefixes? -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/

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

2005-07-21 Thread Shawn Walker
it's just not that simple. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Why I do think OpenSolaris ought to work with Debian

2005-07-21 Thread Shawn Walker
t's own project since there are many things under an "OpenSolaris" distribution that people would want to package that don't fit in with Debian's strict guidelines. While using the work they've already done or starting a new project based off thei

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Why I do think OpenSolaris ought to work with Debian

2005-07-21 Thread Shawn Walker
igured there without ever bringing up a terminal. In addition, webmin is included with Solaris 10 by default and that's another option... So I would disagree that it "constantly require you to bring up a terminal to make even the slightest change to the systems configuration." -- Shawn

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Why I do think OpenSolaris ought to work with Debian

2005-07-21 Thread Shawn Walker
hatever folks want to do with it. We're all part of a bigger community, try to understand that and stop making East / West Berlin style speeches. Many of us maintain and develop software for multiple operating systems, of which Solaris is just one (even if it is perhaps our favourite one sometimes). -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Why I do think OpenSolaris ought to work with Debian

2005-07-21 Thread Shawn Walker
m where the only Solaris > part is the kernel. That's BUSTED. > No, it's simply a set of ideas you don't agree with. It may not fit with the Solaris philosophy, but it doesn't make it any less valid as an idea, experiment, or project. -- Shawn Walker, Software an

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

2005-07-21 Thread Shawn Walker
enefits associated with the proposal. In this case, the > ability to use 3 or 4 additional characters in a package name seems > like a very small benefit against the above-described risks, > especially since you can already use about 28 characters anyway. So is it ok for me to na

Re: [osol-discuss] Release date of build 18

2005-07-22 Thread Shawn Walker
N engineer post... -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Debian with OpenSolaris: a broken dream

2005-07-22 Thread Shawn Walker
that has to defend themselves can that might be biased against the license holder. Either way, someone's going to be unhappy. I can't imagine that clause being put in there without good reason. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAI

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Why I do think OpenSolaris ought to work with Debian

2005-07-22 Thread Shawn Walker
going forward. Debian's Free Software Guidelines can be very strict at times justifiably or not is a matter of opinion. Even if the CDDL wasn't an obstacle, I don't believe they would accept the binary redistribution guidelines that parts of ON will likely always be under. -- Shawn W

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Why I do think OpenSolaris ought to work with Debian

2005-07-22 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/22/05, Keith M Wesolowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 02:39:09PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > > > justifiably or not is a matter of opinion. Even if the CDDL wasn't an > > obstacle, I don't believe they would accept the binary redist

Re: [osol-discuss] how long before we stop doing...

2005-07-23 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/23/05, Sunil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "grep /var/sadm/install/contents |awk '{print $1}'" to see which > files were installed by a package? when is this simple request going to be > merged in 'pkginfo -l'? Workaround example: pkgchk -v SUN

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Why I do think OpenSolaris ought to work with Debian

2005-07-25 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/25/05, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Keith M Wesolowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 02:39:09PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > > > > > justifiably or not is a matter of opinion. Even if the CDDL wasn't an > >

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-25 Thread Shawn Walker
no problem with working whatever way is required. It doesn't matter to me if Solaris leads OpenSolaris or the other way around. Your ideas are noble, but please don't assume that everyone has to work the way you say they do. -- Shawn Walker, Software and

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_b18 on Dell Inspiron 8200

2005-07-25 Thread Shawn Walker
hat initial SX builds > worked too. Let's move this to opensolaris-help, please remove opensolaris-discuss from the to or cc lines in any further replies. To answer your question, we need more info, see this blog entry: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/comments/dmick/Weblog/diagnosing_kernel

Re: [osol-discuss] Java Package for Indiana ?

2007-11-13 Thread Shawn Walker
On 13/11/2007, Mirko Pluhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks for the first developer preview > are there any plans to integrate a JDK into the package repository ? > I'm tired of download it from Sun and install it manually ;-) Yes, it is being worked on. -- Shawn

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris-related parts going GPLv3?

2007-11-15 Thread Shawn Walker
parts also be available under the CDDL to ensure that OpenSolaris-related components continue to follow our community's choice of licensing? -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris-related parts going GPLv3?

2007-11-15 Thread Shawn Walker
On 15/11/2007, Simon Phipps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 15, 2007, at 11:40, Shawn Walker wrote: > > > http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2203486/sun-tiptoes-gplv3 > > > > According to VNUNet, Sun plans on a piece of server virtualisation > > softwar

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris-related parts going GPLv3?

2007-11-15 Thread Shawn Walker
On 15/11/2007, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shawn Walker writes: > > On 15/11/2007, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Shawn Walker writes: > > > > A wide-range of licensing has been embraced, to be sure. However, that > >

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris-related parts going GPLv3?

2007-11-15 Thread Shawn Walker
On 15/11/2007, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shawn Walker writes: > > A wide-range of licensing has been embraced, to be sure. However, that > > has only applied so far to 3rd party or non-OS pieces so far. > > How would a separate management application b

Re: [osol-discuss] Is there a restart option button?

2007-11-16 Thread Shawn Walker
On 15/11/2007, Reggie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for all the answers. Does this work? Type init6 in run? I think you need to open a terminal window, type "pfexec bash" and then "init 6". -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris-related parts going GPLv3?

2007-11-16 Thread Shawn Walker
On 15/11/2007, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shawn Walker writes: > > For example, if I wanted to take the source code of the hypervisor > > manager and add bits and pieces of OpenSolaris code to it; I could > > not. Even though it comes from Sun and is OS

[osol-discuss] [OT] Re: [ogb-discuss] My bank called me on my cell phone:

2007-11-17 Thread Shawn Walker
Solaris-related things all the time because it is what I love doing. However, you have to find balance between your personal life and that which you love to do. Very few people get paid to do what they love. I have often had to choose work that pays well instead of work I would love to do. Findin

Re: [osol-discuss] less

2007-11-18 Thread Shawn Walker
ct/missing > > Looks like someone has tried to fix something that wasn't broken... :-( Why do you assume this? The behaviour looks like it could be correct to me. Can you prove that less is not supposed to do this? -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.b

Re: [osol-discuss] less

2007-11-18 Thread Shawn Walker
me. Indeed; it has worked this way in *BSDs, and all GNU/Linux distros I have used for a long time. It is nice to see holy wars ended :) -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of a

Re: [osol-discuss] less

2007-11-18 Thread Shawn Walker
On 18/11/2007, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Shawn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 18/11/2007, Thommy M. Malmström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thommy M. Malmström wrote: > > > > > Seems as if

Re: [osol-discuss] less

2007-11-18 Thread Shawn Walker
On 18/11/2007, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 18/11/2007, Thommy M. Malmström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 18/11/2007, Thommy M. Malmström > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Thommy M. Malmström wrote:

Re: [osol-discuss] less

2007-11-18 Thread Shawn Walker
ur is a matter of preference. See this bug for info on why this change is correct: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do;jsessionid=1b34c086175d03f063a3daad5d82?bug_id=6622763 If you are using xterm, you can use "titleInhibit" to prevent this behaviou

Re: [osol-discuss] less

2007-11-18 Thread Shawn Walker
s just triggered by the change in > terminfo. Jufging too wuick is always wrong. However, in this case, Solaris' terminal definition was missing definitions completely and that was a bug. They have now been added. While it is a personal decision, this finally meets the behaviour that many

Re: [osol-discuss] less

2007-11-18 Thread Shawn Walker
ot titleIhibit (it's derived from ti-te Inhibit; were > ti and te are the termcap settings for smcup and rmcup. Ooops; sorry about that :) Thanks for the correction Casper, -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough paral

Re: [osol-discuss] less

2007-11-18 Thread Shawn Walker
On 18/11/2007, "Thommy M. Malmström" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: > > On 18/11/2007, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> The init and term strings have been traditionally in "is" and "rs".

Re: [osol-discuss] b76 mplayer bombs?

2007-11-18 Thread Shawn Walker
dio was removed due to a licensing conflict in b75. See this bug for more information: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=413705 -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junctio

Re: [osol-discuss] less

2007-11-18 Thread Shawn Walker
>and Solaris. > > > > Why on earth would you assume that and not just read the fix which just > > rmcup and smcup? > > You said that xterm was affected Of course xterm is going to be indirectly affecteded when terminfo entries for xterm are

Re: [osol-discuss] less

2007-11-18 Thread Shawn Walker
ere they are supposed to be when using less as a pager with man, those have been working for some time. You need to be more specific about what problem you are talking about, because I don't see one in b76 or b74. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com

Re: [osol-discuss] less

2007-11-18 Thread Shawn Walker
t does not make it true; > > xterm *was* affected by this bug fix. > > > > Not on my SXCE b76... Mine is. So yours must be using a non-standard configuration. less behaves identically in both gnome-terminal and xterm here for me under b76. As I expect, it restores the

Re: [osol-discuss] less

2007-11-18 Thread Shawn Walker
On 18/11/2007, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Shawn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You need to be more specific about what problem you are talking about, > > because I don't see one in b76 or b74. > > If you do not know

Re: [osol-discuss] less

2007-11-18 Thread Shawn Walker
On 18/11/2007, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Shawn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 18/11/2007, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "Shawn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

Re: [osol-discuss] less

2007-11-18 Thread Shawn Walker
On 18/11/2007, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Shawn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Just try out if you do not understand the problem. > > > > > > > > > 1) MUCH more than intended is underlined > &

Re: [osol-discuss] less

2007-11-18 Thread Shawn Walker
ugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6622763 "11-Closed:Not a Defect (Closed)" I can also verify that it now works as it has worked on many other systems for a long time (i.e. GNU/Linux, *BSDs, etc.) -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ &quo

Re: [osol-discuss] b76 mplayer bombs?

2007-11-18 Thread Shawn Walker
pensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > > Hopefully this has been pulled for expediency by Sun Legal and once everyone > is clear that it is GPL2 only it will be put back. It would be great to see > the details of how this became re-licensed - do you have any more info on > this Jör

Re: [osol-discuss] less

2007-11-19 Thread Shawn Walker
it can easily revert to the old behaviour. The small inconvenience to those individuals is far outweighed in the positive overall user experience increase for others. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel uni

Re: [osol-discuss] snv-76 panics on installation

2007-11-20 Thread Shawn Walker
or a potential workaround would be > appreciated Can't really help you without seeing what panic you have. Follow the directions in this blog post to provide us the needed information: http://blogs.sun.com/dmick/date/20050615 Thanks! -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst h

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 11 release timing (or should I run Solaris 10 on a laptop?)

2007-11-21 Thread Shawn Walker
laptop. All the good things for laptops came in after Solaris > 10, right? Actually, most of the good things for laptops are now in Solaris Express. WiFi support out of the box for Intel chipsets, better video support, etc. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader

Re: [osol-discuss] cdda2wav problem in build 76

2007-11-22 Thread Shawn Walker
ng should it take to get there? The bugs are triaged by a human, so during the holidays it may take several days. Normally it's the same or next day in my personal experience. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enoug

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