Re: The future of Nexenta revealed

2007-07-17 Thread Tim Spriggs
Martin Man wrote: Erast Benson wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 15:07 +0200, Martin Man wrote: Nico Sabbi wrote: what I'd really like to have in some more documentation, especially guides on how to package ON stuff (not all of it is available in Nexenta, including pieces that

Re: Focussing on server aspects short/medium term

2007-07-19 Thread Tim Spriggs
That's an interesting can of worms because in Debian I am used to editing /etc/network/interfaces in order to statically configure a set of network interfaces. In Solaris, I have to manage several files (/etc/hostname.* /etc/hostname6.* /etc/hosts ...) in order to do the same things. To take

Re: Questions from Nexenta Newbie

2007-08-01 Thread Tim Spriggs
originally posted on the beginners list: spencerforhire wrote: Finally, I noticed it takes a long time for the network interfaces to time-out during boot if I'm not connected to a network. I was wondering how you all deal with this? Do you somehow kill the network interfaces or lower the

zones patches

2007-08-09 Thread Tim Spriggs
What do I need to do to get a patch included for the zone scripts? Also, is there any way to port this into the alpha7 repository so that people can use zones? Thanks, -Tim ___ gnusol-devel mailing list gnusol-devel@lists.sonic.net

libnspr4 vs libnspr4-0d and sunwcsl

2007-08-12 Thread Tim Spriggs
Hi devel, Question: should we use libnspr4 or libnspr4-0d ? if we are to use libnspr4-0d, should we change the dependency of sunwcsl? if we are to use libnspr4, how do we go about building the newest version? (seems like we want libnspr4-0d) Of note, searching for libnspr4 in debian packages

Re: Renaming and consolidating the mailing lists

2007-08-18 Thread Tim Spriggs
Martin Man wrote: Erast Benson wrote: By now, nexenta.org machine is fully functional, we even copied web content from gnusolaris.org to this new machine, so, if you point your browser to http://www.nexenta.org you should see the content from the old site with a little bit changed logo on

Re: SUNWspro stuff

2007-08-21 Thread Tim Spriggs
Martin Man wrote: the better way are diversions, see dpkg-divert, are you installing into /usr/ ? I thought that sunwspro goes into /opt/SUNWspro by default and thus does not conflict with anything (read: I have not had a time to play with your package yet)... It's mostly in /opt/SUNWspro

Re: zones patches

2007-08-29 Thread Tim Spriggs
, not easy to make them part of the sunwzone{u,r} packages now AFAIK, and of course log a bug at launchpad.net/nexenta and attach the patch there... let me know whether that works for you, Martin Tim Spriggs wrote: What do I need to do to get a patch included for the zone scripts? Also

Re: SUNWspro stuff

2007-12-11 Thread Tim Spriggs
Brandorr wrote: Martin, I have cc'ed Kuldip Oberoi into this discussion, as we have had preliminary talks on the possibility of getting a redistribution license. Cheers, Brian Hello Kuldip, Is there any new development on being able to distribute the SunPro compiler suite with

Re: SUNWspro stuff

2008-01-24 Thread Tim Spriggs
Hi Aubrey, 1) If you add the CSW sources [1] you can install the csw mercurial. Beyond that, if you compile hg from ubuntu sources you can submit the buildable source via dput for inclusion into the Nexenta repository. 2) This can be downloaded from the opensolaris website. Again,

Re: SUNWspro stuff

2008-01-26 Thread Tim Spriggs
Aubrey Li wrote: Hi Tim, On Jan 25, 2008 1:52 PM, Tim Spriggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Aubrey, 1) If you add the CSW sources [1] you can install the csw mercurial. Beyond that, if you compile hg from ubuntu sources you can submit the buildable source via dput for inclusion

Re: Will apt-clone upgrade support progress reporting?

2008-02-13 Thread Tim Spriggs
To avoid a bad exit status from the fail you can tell apt-get to --download-only when doing the dist-upgrade: apt-get update apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade apt-clone dist-upgrade NB: when you do this download it only downloads for the global zone. The non-global zones do their own

Re: BuildingPackages updates

2008-03-19 Thread Tim Spriggs
Hi Jeffrey, When an Ubuntu version contains a string like ubuntu1 then we substitute nexenta for ubuntu ( s/ubuntu/nexenta/ ). When a straight import has been done without modification to the package, we can keep the package version the same. When there are edits we should ensure that

Re: 1.0.1-test3 available for testing

2008-04-09 Thread Tim Spriggs
Hi Erast, There is a new bug in the e1000g driver that does not allow flow control to be advertised correctly. This means that link aggregates on the x4100 don't work where there are two nge interfaces and two e1000g interfaces. This seems to affect the latest Sol10U4 patches and the

Re: 1.0.1-test3 available for testing

2008-04-09 Thread Tim Spriggs
you have bug number for this? Could you look it up if fix is already in? On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 13:52 -0700, Tim Spriggs wrote: Hi Erast, There is a new bug in the e1000g driver that does not allow flow control to be advertised correctly. This means that link aggregates on the x4100

Re: 1.0.1-test3 available for testing

2008-04-23 Thread Tim Spriggs
for this? Could you look it up if fix is already in? On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 13:52 -0700, Tim Spriggs wrote: Hi Erast, There is a new bug in the e1000g driver that does not allow flow control to be advertised correctly. This means that link aggregates on the x4100 don't work where there are two

Re: Porting glibc

2008-05-12 Thread Tim Spriggs
David Bartley wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 3:59 AM, Aubrey Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: blastwave seems to have glibc OpenSolaris porting. From what I can tell, all the blastwave stuff links against /lib/libc.so.1, which would be sun's libc. Perhaps you are thinking of glib (a

Zone boot/reboot hooks

2008-06-15 Thread Tim Spriggs
Hi, I want to file an RFE but I thought I should discuss a little before I do: I would like a way to run a script in the global zone when a non-global zone boots. My use case is: I'm a developer for NexentaCP and I would like to make an autobuilder using zones. In particular I want to

Re: Bug: m4 and sunwcsu both provide /usr/bin/m4, causing a collision

2008-08-25 Thread Tim Spriggs
Thanks for the report. I could have sworn this bug was fixed. In any case you can use dpkg-divert to get the package to install for you. Something along the lines of: dpkg-divert --add /usr/bin/m4 --package m4 (syntax might be slightly different) Cheers, -Tim Per Lundberg wrote: Hello,

Re: Bug: nano has circular symlink

2008-08-27 Thread Tim Spriggs
Yes, launchpad is definitely the place for this sort of thing. The package list function is still not completely up to date, maybe I should file a bug on that too :) Thanks, -Tim Per Lundberg wrote: I think I found it... The /bin directory is, by default, symlinked to /usr/bin. And this is

Re: Bug: m4 and sunwcsu both provide /usr/bin/m4, causing a collision

2008-08-27 Thread Tim Spriggs
I imported your key from the MIT keyserver and lightly tested the glib package you submitted and it looks good. It's been accepted into hardy-unstable. Thanks! -Tim Per Lundberg wrote: Thank you for the warm welcome. :-) I uploaded my first package now, glib 1.2, so let's see if it gets

Re: Dependencies on each other

2008-08-31 Thread Tim Spriggs
With a little bit of magic... I'll bet one of the perl modules will compile from stock source or by ignoring dependencies. Anil Gulecha wrote: Hi all, I've run into instances where packages depend on each other: slib and scm, libmodule-scandeps-perl and libmodule-install-perl. How does

Re: my trouble in modify a packake

2008-09-04 Thread Tim Spriggs
Hi, I need a few things clarified below. (see comments) jklyekai wrote: Hello all: I have made a basic bootable nexentacore-base distribution .Now I want to modify a package:grub-data and have some trubles. 1.My local repo=/tank/ncp;main command is nbld-bootstrap. 2.I use apt-get source

Re: Incompatible libgcc?

2008-09-05 Thread Tim Spriggs
Hey Anil, the -m64 flag tells gcc to generate 64 bit binaries. I imagine that /usr/lib/gcc/i386-pc-solaris2.11/4.2.3/libgcc.a is 32 bit? I don't know what is going on in the build of libnspr4-dev but it looks like it is attempting a 64 bit build by default. We probably don't want that

Re: my trouble in modify a package

2008-09-05 Thread Tim Spriggs
. To submit the keys have you tried the following? ws ~ % gpg --list-keys pub 1024D/BABE880B 2007-09-18 uid Tim Spriggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... ws ~ % gpg --send-keys BABE880B gpg: sending key BABE880B to hkp server subkeys.pgp.net Then you can quickly test to see that the key was submitted

Re: nexenta-on package uploaded

2008-10-07 Thread Tim Spriggs
awesome! Great work :) Erast Benson wrote: Dear Nexenta Developers, nexenta-on package which includes full nexenta kernel sources uploaded into hardy repository now. Its very initial, so don't expect much... the work will continue. Those who interested should be able to re-compile nexenta

b85 - b103 upgrade (needs polish)

2008-11-27 Thread Tim Spriggs
Hi Devel, I attempted an upgrade from b85 to b103 (hardy-unstable) and there were a few errors along the way: Preparing to replace sunwcsl 5.11.85-1 (using .../sunwcsl_5.11.103-1_solaris-i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement sunwcsl ... dpkg: error processing

Re: Devzone issue

2008-11-29 Thread Tim Spriggs
Hi Erast, I'm bringing -devel into this so potentially more people can comment/suggest possible fixes. Erast Benson wrote: Guys, what is the resolution for all this? Would be helpful if you could give me details in what sunw packages I need to change what, etc? It's tough to say. The

Re: Devzone issue

2008-12-12 Thread Tim Spriggs
This is a nexenta specific issue, not an issue with devzone. Anil Gulecha wrote: Another devzone-specific issue. On a newly created devzone, r...@kauai:~/src/smf/postgres.2# svcs -xv svc:/network/npiv_config:default (?) State: offline since Sun Nov 30 23:36:37 2008 Reason: Dependency

Panic on boot

2008-12-16 Thread Tim Spriggs
This is the second host with b104 I am getting this on. Has anyone else seen this: module /platform/i86pc/kernel/amd64/unix: text at [0xfb80, 0xfb91fcc3] data at 0xfbc0 module /kernel/amd64/genunix: text at [0xfb91fcd0, 0xfbb6c1c7] data at

Re: Couldn't download nvi during base_zone setup

2008-12-28 Thread Tim Spriggs
Great, I'll patch the zones package soonish. Thanks for testing :) Jason Upton wrote: Hi Tim, Yes, removing nvi from that bootstrap file allowed the zone to install fine. Thanks for your help! Jason On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Tim Spriggs t...@tajinc.org wrote: Hi Jason

Re: 8000 packages in the NCP2 repo: 3200 missing

2008-12-29 Thread Tim Spriggs
Erast Benson wrote: BTW, 9300 packages imported now. 3700 missing... Wahoo! The crap is comin' in with full force! Time to implement more checks I suppose. I wonder if we could utilize apt-get's ordering simulation, i.e. to verify if package A is good do this in a script: if apt-get

Re: 8000 packages in the NCP2 repo: 3200 missing

2008-12-30 Thread Tim Spriggs
Erast Benson wrote: I don't think having packages with unmet depends in the unstable repository is a bad thing. I think in the worst scenario we can simply migrate known good packages to testing/stable and leave unmet packages in unstable. Having the packages there helps to get people

Re: Package version numbering from upstream

2009-01-15 Thread Tim Spriggs
Hey Anil, Oh I do hate this can of worms; it keeps getting opened/closed/re-opened. --- explanation as it occurs to me at the moment, details may have drifted with memory --- There is a hack within Nexenta's dpkg to understand any version ubuntuN = nexentaN even though this is wrong

hardy release bugs and direction

2009-02-08 Thread Tim Spriggs
Hi All, The hardy release is closer than ever but there are a fair amount of bugs in the DB. I started a blueprint on launchpad to try and organize the direction we want to take to release NCP2.0/hardy. The first step is to associate all major known/filed bugs with the blueprint. I made it

Re: sun vs. ubuntu issues in dependences ?

2009-03-07 Thread Tim Spriggs
Mario Lorenz wrote: I guess I would prefer ubuntu as a baseline, if only for the reason that all packages that possibly are ported likely have debianish/linuxish expectations. For instance, I still find myself calling ps twice, because the first time it complains -axu aint there. Thank god

Another installer error

2009-04-16 Thread Tim Spriggs
11:06 Ycros hi, I've just installed NCP2 RC1, and its throwing me into maintenance mode as soon as I boot, saying console services cannot be started. svcs -x is telling me a bunch of services are offline due to Dependency svc:/system/filesystem/root is absent. 11:06 Ycros what's

Re: Zlib makefile in SFW..

2009-04-26 Thread Tim Spriggs
I yanked out the SunPro compiler changes and combined the mapfile with the default Debian mapfile and compiled with gcc (as 32 and 64 bit) again. Testing shows that iscsitgtd/sshd/zoneadm all work with the new libs installed. I am accepting the new version into the hardy-unstable repository

Re: Nexenta Core Platform 2 Released

2009-05-25 Thread Tim Spriggs
NCP2 would not be possible without the tireless and dedicated efforts of it's community members. The Nexenta project would like to thank: The Folks on IRC: who've made #nexenta the helpful and supportive channel it is. Tim Spriggs, author of the autobuilder and devzone, leader

Re: nexenta alien

2009-05-29 Thread Tim Spriggs
Hi Joey, Sorry about the version bump, that is my fault. I (mindlessly) ran dch -i and placed the package into the repository. After that I could not go back and didn't want to keep going so I appended a .N which I now know should have been a -N according to Debian policy. In fact, local

Re: Security maintenership

2009-06-05 Thread Tim Spriggs
You find, we fix? I imagine that security vulnerabilities in OpenSolaris will be picked up by Nexenta (the company) but security patches in the GNU upstream (Ubuntu) can be pushed by the community (and/or Nexenta.com). Jerome Warnier wrote: Hi, Now that NCP 2.0 is out, I wondered about

Re: [nexenta-changes] Incoming Package: postfix_2.5.2-1nexenta4

2009-06-20 Thread Tim Spriggs
This has been rejected because the package still hits the newaliases bug (LP #378955) and the author will include a patch for it in the next upload. FTP Uploads wrote: postfix_2.5.2-1nexenta4 Package Summary: Architecture: source solaris-i386 all Distribution: hardy Maintainer: LaMont Jones

Re: [nexenta-changes] Incoming Package: coreutils_6.10-3nexenta2

2009-07-08 Thread Tim Spriggs
Hi Mashiro, Thanks for porting and submitting these packages. It looks like the coreutils package you included contains /usr/lib/charset.alias which is not in the current coreutils. Attempting to install this file results in the following error: (Reading database ... 30075 files and

Re: [nexenta-changes] Accepted Package: nexenta-build-seq-1

2009-09-17 Thread Tim Spriggs
FTP Uploads wrote: Accepted package(s) to /tank/ncp2/incoming/hardy-unstable mercurial_1.3.1-1.dsc mercurial_1.3.1-1.tar.gz mercurial-common_1.3.1-1_all.deb mercurial_1.3.1-1_solaris-i386.deb mercurial_1.3.1-1_solaris-i386.changes Changes: mercurial (1.3.1-1) unstable; urgency=low . *

Re: gnusolaris.org to be reinstalled

2010-03-30 Thread Tim Spriggs
Anil Gulecha wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Anil Gulecha anil.ve...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, gnusolaris.org machine will be reinstalled. If you have any important data that needs be backed up.. please do this in the next 24 hours. Thanks, Anil Done. If you had an account