Re: The future of Nexenta revealed

2007-07-17 Thread Erast Benson
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 are CDDL such as the xsvc driver, BTW why?) so

Re: SUNWspro stuff

2008-01-24 Thread Erast Benson
On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 13:37 +0800, Aubrey Li wrote: I really want to make nexenta to be a development platform. So, besides Sun Studio, I'd like to the following package are added. 1) ON source tools: Mercurial done (in unstable now) 2) ON Specific Build Tools: SUNWonbld.i386.tar.bz2

Nexenta Core Platform RC3 available

2008-01-27 Thread Erast Benson
Nexenta Core Platform (NexentaCP) RC3 is available at: http://www.nexenta.org Release highlights: * OpenSolaris build 80+ (non-debug) + critical fixes from b81-b83 [1]: - critical fixes for native CIFS server - critical fixes for ZFS - critical bug fixes for SATA and networking

Re: xsvc driver is missing

2008-01-29 Thread Erast Benson
apt-get install sunwxsvc On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 16:30 +0100, Nico Sabbi wrote: On Tuesday 29 January 2008 15:26:04 Aubrey Li wrote: On nexenta, xsvc driver is missing. So some solaris special applications failed due to no /dev/xsvc. Is it intended? Why? -Aubrey I asked the same

Re: how to track the status of my uploaded package

2008-02-14 Thread Erast Benson
I assume you already subscribed to nexenta-changes@ mailing list? You should see your upload there, and some of FTP-masters will examine it and accept it - you should see accept or reject. On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 23:39 +0800, Aubrey Li wrote: I uploaded a new package, and wonder how to track the

Re: Custom Nexenta Build

2008-02-28 Thread Erast Benson
apt-get install nexenta-builder On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 19:39 +0530, Harshavardhana wrote: Hi Nexeanta Group, I wanted to know is there a way that i can build a custom distribution like nexenta with minimal applications, in my case 1. Bash prompt. 2. OpenSolaris kernel. 3.

Re: NCP 1.0.1-test1 available for testing

2008-03-19 Thread Erast Benson
I'm sorry you have such an impression - but, hey, this is open source stuff - don't complain and fix it yourself if you can. Remember, most of Nexenta developers doing this work for free at their free time. On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 14:51 +0200, Marcus Sundman wrote: Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 1.0.1-test3 available for testing

2008-04-09 Thread Erast Benson
. 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 latest Nexenta testing base. -Tim Erast Benson wrote: Guys, I just uploaded 1.0.1-test3 for your testing

Re: 1.0.1-test3 available for testing

2008-04-23 Thread Erast Benson
, -Tim Erast Benson wrote: Thanks for the information! By any chance, do 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

easySMF

2008-04-30 Thread Erast Benson
For those who interested in creating SMF services for Debian packages, here is nice web GUI, which should generate initial SMF .xml file: http://es.opensolaris.org/easySMF/ Examples of SMFed services in Nexenta are rsync, apache2, etc. We are using dh_installsmf deb helper and the process pretty

Re: [Fwd: [nexenta-changes] Incoming Package: suphp_0.6.1-1nexenta1]

2008-05-15 Thread Erast Benson
Daniel, yes, this is the problem. It should return 0 on success. Could you put 'echo' in the code and see which line causing this? We would then could come up with the fix. On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 14:55 +0100, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erast Benson

Re: [nexenta-changes] Accepted Package: write-throttle-zfs

2008-05-28 Thread Erast Benson
http://hg.genunix.org/onnv-gate.hg/rev/1a2a7cfb9f26 On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 00:09 +0200, Nico Sabbi wrote: Il Wednesday 28 May 2008 19:43:19 Erast Benson ha scritto: Hi Guys, just uploaded ZFS write-throttle fix into unstable. Give it a try! can you explain what this fix does, please

Announcing Hackathon event this Saturday (05/31/08)

2008-05-29 Thread Erast Benson
Dear NexentaOS Developers and Users! Starting this Saturday, we are inviting all Debian/Nexenta and OpenSolaris developers and users to participate in our first Hackathon event. Hackathon starts on this Saturday 05/31/2008 and continues during first week of June. Development coordinated at

1.0.1-test4 available for testing

2008-05-30 Thread Erast Benson
This is to announce 1.0.1-test4 (elatte NCP 1.x branch) release. Main fixes and changes: * 100+ new packages in elatte-testing repository * LSI mega_sas driver for LSI SAS/SATA HBAs * IBM ServeRAID FreeBSD ported ips driver for 4x,5x,6x series HBAs * ZFS write-throttle fixes from b87 and b91

Re: unison

2008-05-30 Thread Erast Benson
In this case, we probably need to split unison package. Following NCP policy here to accept console-only/daemon-only/library-only packages... On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 04:14 +0300, Marcus Sundman wrote: Leonardo Rodrigues de Mello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working at porting unison debian

Nexenta Hackathon in Progress - Status

2008-06-04 Thread Erast Benson
Hi, A lot of fun these days and a lot of achievements! June's Hackathon-in-progress status: * Debian tools such as: devscripts, dpkg, apt, debarchiver, etc all ported * compiled bunch of NCP 2.0 packages (gcc prerequisites) * newisys-nas.stanford.edu

Re: ncp2a1 build-essentials issue

2008-08-12 Thread Erast Benson
I think that you could substitute some of the packages from Elatte/Dapper. (NCP 1.0). Two apt-get/dpkg options could be especially helpful here: apt-get --reinstall install ... dpkg --force-all ... But long term - we need to add missing packages to the NCP 2.0 repository.. On Tue, 2008-08-12

Re: Avoiding a file being added to a package

2008-08-14 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 20:00 +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another way is to use dpkg-divert - but in this case its a bug. charset.alias must be shipped with libiconv library only. I hung around at #elinks, and turns out

Re: how to tell dput to upload uninstalled packages

2008-08-15 Thread Erast Benson
dput says: please install package locally, so to verify that it installs cleanly before uploading it. Have you tried this yet? On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 22:42 +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote: Hi, I'm loading 4 packages, of which 2 conflict with each other. (thus i cannot install them both at the same

Re: how to tell dput to upload uninstalled packages

2008-08-15 Thread Erast Benson
If nothing else, dput is a python script you could temporarily disable check - or better extend it with an option which will do so. On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 23:48 +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote: On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dput says: please install package

Re: how to tell dput to upload uninstalled packages

2008-08-15 Thread Erast Benson
PM, Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 23:48 +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote: On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dput says: please install package locally, so to verify that it installs cleanly before uploading it. Have you

Re: Patching a file already being patched

2008-08-18 Thread Erast Benson
Usually there should be a way to disable usage of fakeroot. But I could confirm that the version of fakeroot (binary) available on SchiliX ftp worked fine for me.. On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 15:27 +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Anil Gulecha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,

Re: Patching a file already being patched

2008-08-18 Thread Erast Benson
I do not remember, I think it was part of SchiliX ISO.. On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 10:06 +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Usually there should be a way to disable usage of fakeroot. But I could confirm that the version of fakeroot

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

2008-08-26 Thread Erast Benson
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 03:37 -0700, Michael Bushey wrote: I was thinking of porting my favourite editor XEmacs... I'm a vi guy, but this is exactly what Nexenta needs, a complete (ie comparable to Ubuntu or Debian) repository. It seems that focused push works best for Nexenta development.

Re: Gtk build issues

2008-08-30 Thread Erast Benson
We need to debug why GLIB-linked application core dumps... Do we have any other glib-linked packages uploaded and working? On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 20:59 +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote: Hi, I'm tryign to build the gtk2.0 package for hardy.. and configure fails with .. checking for pkg-config...

Re: Gtk build issues

2008-08-31 Thread Erast Benson
Seems like include path for GLIB is not properly set. glib.h not found On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 16:20 +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote: The core dump is now done away with.. i compiled glib2.16.4 removing the -lgthread flag. configure still fails at configure:24210: checking for extra flags for

Re: Incompatible libgcc?

2008-09-05 Thread Erast Benson
apt-get install lib64gcc1 or similar should help.. On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 13:52 +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote: Hi, I was building the package libnspr4-dev, when make failed with an incompatible -lgcc. what does this mean and any suggested workarounds? Regards Anil [snip] dh_testdir

Re: Simple autobuild script

2008-09-05 Thread Erast Benson
Good one. It uses all the right tools - which is most critical here. On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 23:25 +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote: hi, I've written a simple build script to automatically go though the building steps for a package. In the best case, where no change is required to a upstream

Nexenta Alpha2 Hackaton minutes

2008-09-05 Thread Erast Benson
Hi All, Hackaton is still in progress! Here goes short history of events so far: * NexentaCore 2.0 Alpha2 first 'testing' ISO available - ON b97/b98 based. People reported successful installations, likely we will have official Alpha2 next week, as usual, upgradable with power of Debian tools -

Re: python-gobject does not install

2008-09-13 Thread Erast Benson
this usually happens when you trying to access APT repo in the middle of uploads. Just wait couple minutes and try again. On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 08:28 +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote: Hi, ONe of the build dependencies for a package to be installed is python-gobject .. but [EMAIL

upstream patches policy

2008-09-13 Thread Erast Benson
Just talked to Ubuntu developers on #ubuntu-devel. Added section to http://www.nexenta.org/os/NexentaRepositoryPolicyMain with suggestions. ___ gnusol-devel mailing list gnusol-devel@lists.sonic.net http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-devel

Re: aspell issues

2008-09-16 Thread Erast Benson
On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 13:03 +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote: On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Anil Gulecha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've been building various aspell packages. Most package fine into debs, but almost all have the below issue when installing ( I've uploaded the debs

Re: A review of the base system

2008-09-17 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 10:11 -0400, Michael Casadevall wrote: * A LOT of source packages are missing (most of the sunw*) Will be uploading this this one in 2-3 weeks. This should not be a problem at least. But I'd like to make sure that it is build-able on NCP, even with some help of native

Re: GNU libc on OpenSolaris

2008-09-18 Thread Erast Benson
Hi David, Great work! Yes, such port makes sense and solves some of the issues (mostly GNU libc portability) but unfortunately creates new issues, which I'm sure, could be worked out and soon we should have more or less working first ISO available with support for this new exciting architecture!

Re: [osol-discuss] GNU libc on OpenSolaris

2008-09-19 Thread Erast Benson
-END PGP SIGNATURE- On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, such port makes sense and solves some of the issues (mostly GNU libc portability) but unfortunately creates new issues, which I'm sure, could

Re: [osol-discuss] GNU libc on OpenSolaris

2008-09-19 Thread Erast Benson
to get things like the wifi tools for FreeBSD working. I'm not saying that adapting glibc is a bad thing, but we need to figure out if we really want to go down this path. Michael On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right. And in addition to autotools

Re: gnusol-devel Digest, Vol 29, Issue 3

2008-10-23 Thread Erast Benson
2008-10-23 -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:40:10 -0700 From: Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: nexenta-on package uploaded To: gnusol-devel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type

Re: dh_installsmf parsing bug?

2008-11-01 Thread Erast Benson
On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 10:52 +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote: Hi, I think I'm running into a parsing bug with dh_installsmf with the package postgresql-8.3.. the manifest seems fine and defines a section as follows.. -snip manifest- service_bundle type='manifest'

nexenta-on b102 uploaded

2008-11-16 Thread Erast Benson
Dear Nexenta Developers, I just uploaded b102 bits (yes with 6771840 backout) into Hardy unstable and managed to upgrade couple of Alpha2 environments. So far so good and I'd like to give you a green light for upgrades of your dev. environments. As usual, if something goes wrong, use apt-clone

Re: nexenta-on b102 uploaded

2008-11-25 Thread Erast Benson
). No problems upgrading and rebooting. What was the fix? Thomas On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I think it should be fixed now. Could you please try to rollback this upgrade and try again? On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 21:18 -0500, Thomas Garner wrote

Re: b85 - b103 upgrade (needs polish)

2008-12-01 Thread Erast Benson
what's the output of zfs mount command? On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 22:28 -0800, Michael Bushey wrote: I'm running SunOS random 5.11 NexentaOS_20081118 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris - I guess that's 103b, I don't know how to tell. # apt-clone dist-upgrade This operation will upgrade your system

Re: nexenta-on source package

2008-12-14 Thread Erast Benson
That was me - I accidentally uploaded the package without source. I'm planning to push it tonight/tomorrow with more CIFS/AD fixes included. On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 12:24 +0100, C. Bergström wrote: Hi guys.. I'm trying to find the latest nexenta-on source package.. Can you push that somewhere

Re: Panic on boot

2008-12-16 Thread Erast Benson
you might need to verify that zpool / zfs versions of your checkpoint(s) are all the latest: zpool get version syspool = v10 zfs get -r version syspool = v3 However, keep in mind that if you upgrade to v10, you will not be able to load previous checkpoint with b85. Another possible reason is

Re: Panic on boot

2008-12-16 Thread Erast Benson
This been fixed in b104 I believe On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 17:28 -0500, Thomas Garner wrote: I wasn't seeing them at boot, but after upgrading to b102, I saw spontaneous reboots, often several times a day. It was bad enough that I reverted to b85. Dec 2 04:00:11 filer0

Re: 8000 packages in the NCP2 repo: 3200 missing

2008-12-29 Thread Erast Benson
BTW, 9300 packages imported now. 3700 missing... On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 10:27 -0500, Tim Spriggs wrote: I think we need to wait and see what happens when main is enabled for builds before we can judge what will happen ultimately with depends. Right. This make sense to fix prior to addressing

Re: Top links to prstat

2009-01-15 Thread Erast Benson
Is top ported to OpenSolaris yet? I'd like to see zone extensions in it too... Also is anybody interested in porting GNU chmod and ls utilities to work with ZFS ACL's ? Such development, if successful, would somewhat close the gap between SUN / GNU tools and make everybody happy, I think.. On

Re: nexenta-builder and dialog package

2009-01-17 Thread Erast Benson
Yes, I did some modifications to dialog, so it works better with Nexenta installer. I recommend to upload original Elatte dialog package - it is tested and it is stable. On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 12:52 -0800, Jason Upton wrote: Thanks for the feedback Tim. I've been able to build a CD image now

Re: sun vs. ubuntu issues in dependences ?

2009-03-05 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 20:07 +0100, Mario-Lorenz wrote: Hi, I'm working on some of the mail-related packages, and found some issues that I would like to ask which the better way for a fix would be. a) fetchmail doesnt build because it can not find krb5-config. It can not find it because

Re: sunwsfe package source?

2009-03-07 Thread Erast Benson
Jason, just remove of conflicting add_drv PCI ID entry from myamanet-sfe/debian/postinst would do, I think. On Sat, 2009-03-07 at 07:57 -0800, Jason Upton wrote: I'd like to remove the conflict between sunwsfe and myamanet-sfe packages by renaming the myamanet-sfe version of the driver (they

Re: sun vs. ubuntu issues in dependences ?

2009-03-08 Thread Erast Benson
Mario, you are absolutely right. The implementation of the kerberos which comes with ON bits tightly integrated with NFS and CIFS services, provides pam module, and actively maintained by opensolaris community. We should have it installed and offered by default. On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 16:46

RE: sun vs. ubuntu issues in dependences ?

2009-03-09 Thread Erast Benson
You could track changes to krb5 here: http://hg.genunix.org/onnv-gate.hg/log?rev=krb5 but this is only for files matching krb5 phrase. In reality it is much more differences then the above link showing. On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 09:18 +0100, Fredriksson, Ulf wrote: you are absolutely right. The