Andrew Gallatin wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> Andrew Gallatin wrote: >>> I've never built an opensolaris kernel, and I rely >>> on SXCE and BFU to update my bits to the latest >>> bleeding edge. I remember hearing the SXCE is going away, >>> and the OpenSolaris distro is the way forward. Is that right? Does >>> that mean BFU is also going away? >> >> SXCE is gone - the last release was build 130, and it's no longer >> available for download. >> >> BFU is going away soon, as described in the ON IPS transition heads up: >> http://static.opensolaris.org/on/flagdays/pages/20100302184109.html >> > > So whats the general policy on the Opensolaris repos? Is there one > you can point at to get timely updates similar to how BFU worked? > Or are people like me stranded?
The OpenSolaris /dev repo has been publishing new biweekly builds for years. It offers 134 for download now, as you can see on the web page at http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/ Unlike BFU, it updates the entire OS, not just the approx. 20% that BFU updated. BFU was always a tool for developers to test new builds of the ON consolidation - nothing more. BFU was never designed or intended for users to upgrades to new builds, and users who used it as a general upgrade tool almost always broke their systems, since sooner or later you'd hit a flag day requiring an update to one of the other pieces of the OS. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list driver-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
