Got the following to work today: vpnc: I had to install the files at the right locations myself, because the default install task complains about some recursive file thing. But I was able to use the bundles pcf2vpnc tool to convert my Cisco VPN Connection profiles into vpnc connection profiles. Connection was fast and has been stable for the past thirty minutes that I'm using.
rdesktop: the SFE repository is great. I got this to work without problems. Wine: building wine was straightforward. the dependency check complained about not finding fontforge, so a pkgbuild of fontforge was needed. wine itself built and installed without problems. Next in list: - Get Lotus Notes 7.0.3 to work. This is a very essential part of my day to day work. The ticketing system that we use at work is based on Lotus Notes. This'll have to happen tomorrow since I don't have access to the Notes installer at the moment. - Eclipse 3.4 M5 - The bundled SFE spec for Eclipse gives a mix and match between Ecliper 3.3 and SWT 3.4. It also doesn't include the SWTBrowser functionality. Both of these break things in certain RCP applications. Also, it's important the Eclipse build out of the box without us having to mix and match files. I'm going to work on this next today. - Get sound to work. This is a nice to have, and is something that I'll pursue once I get Notes to work fine. Workarounds for the Notes: - Run a bare bones XP on Xen backed by a ZFS store, and run Notes within that XP instance. - Failing that, run XP on VirtualBox. - Thinking again, as a Windows admin, I'll actually need a Windows instance that logs onto the active directory domain so that I can reactivate user accounts, change passwords for users, etc. At present on OSX, I connect to Windows based servers via RDP. A note about getting the JDS environment to install: - SUNWsmbaS is still needed by the cbe-install script. I checked online, saw a post by Shiv sometime last year where he mentioned something about this particular package not being needed anymore. So I knocked off this package dependency in the cbe-install script. - The install script states that a particular patch (121016) is needed on the Sun Studio compiler. However, I was unable to install this patch. Also, I just recollected that I have Sun Studio 12 and not 11. So it's just as well that this patch didn't get installed ! I'll keep the list posted on progress. -- Sriram
