In regard to: Re: patches for OpenIndiana/Solaris 11, Jeffrey Johnson said...:
I'm replacing my current x86_64-pc-solaris2.10 (traditional Solaris 10 from before Oracle bought Sun, 10u6 to be exact) build box with a new x86_64-pc-solaris2.11, which is actually OpenIndiana 151a8.
Be expecting to see some patches in the coming days.
Several procedural details that would help me immensely: 1) a devtool.conf stanza that indicates what build options you are (or wish) to use on OpenSolaris.
That I think I can do. I'll try get something wired up. I've saved previous emails to the list about devtool going all the way back to when you and Ralf first implemented it, so I should have enough in the way of context and examples so I can come up with something useful.
2) hosting a build slave on OpenSolaris
This I would like to do, but I'm not certain if I'll be able to. Since I work at a university I have a lot more flexibility than most, but OI is pretty niche even for us. We do however have some brand new VMWare infrastructure that's desperately in need of testing, so maybe if I position it that way... I'll let you know on the 2nd item, but don't hold your breath. If I *can't* get a buildbot going, I don't think you should spend any time trying to get one going just for continuous integration on OpenSolaris. If there was demand from some "significant" portion of the OS community for RPM, then sure. I do know that at least one OpenSolaris derivative uses rpm as its native package format, but I don't know how or if it's even active anymore. Other than that possibility, I don't think there's enough demand to justify your time trying to support it. I actually would be totally fine with you not incorporating any of the patches I may come up with; I'm submitting more so that they're on the public record in case any other sole is on the same path. Tim -- Tim Mooney tim.moo...@ndsu.edu Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure 701-231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J6, IACC Building 701-231-8541 (Fax) North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164 ______________________________________________________________________ RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org Developer Communication List rpm-devel@rpm5.org
