Hey Erast,

<excuses>
I'm in IRC on and off (but mostly off right now) as rootard. I'm glad to 
lend a hand but I'm still trying to get my house ready to sell in this 
market and move across the country (and find another job) so my time is 
really stinted.
</excuses>

<self-contained project idea>
One thing that would really help is a tool that looks at available 
sources and defines(outputs) what is not built(available) and can be 
built according to installable build dependencies. If there is something 
that does this already out there then it would be better to use that 
rather than build something new.

The only way I've figured to do this is download the upstream source 
package and try to build it. apt-get build-dep <source> can also lead to 
good results but doesn't always ring true.
</self-contained project idea>

I think this would really help in getting simple things built. As a 
builder, most of my time is spent walking down dependencies in order to 
get something built.

-Tim

Erast Benson wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> Right. LTS 2.0 is out. Because of that, we had face-to-face core team
> meeting yesterday, and before that we discussed with Shiv and BeleniX
> team about Hardy migration - that is NCP 2.0.
>
> Shiv will continue NCP 2.0 migration effort in 2-3 weeks (he started it
> ~3 months ago), and I will help him then. But we need MORE free hands
> helping us. So, I'm asking developers on this mailing list - please join
> IRC in the next 1-2 weeks to coordinate the effort.
>
> First thing is to compile gcc tool-chain using NCP 1.0 environment -
> hacks are OK. Later, recompile base packages ~ 200, and later re-compile
> tool-chain again using new environment. As the result, we will have new
> APT which we will wrap using nexenta-builder as a first minimalistic ISO
> and that will be release NCP 2.0 Alpha 1.
>
> We have couple of build machines at Stanford University, as well as in
> few other places - so, if some devs on this mailing list wants to help
> us - please let us know on IRC #nexenta and we will create SSH accounts
> and proper setups.
>
> Regarding Sun & Nexenta - we are truly friends, and Sun really helping
> us in many ways, as well I think we helping Sun in some ways too.
>
> On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 18:43 -0500, Andrew Chace wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I seem to recall that Nexenta was originally based-on/built-from the
>> Ubuntu 6.06 LTS release. How do new releases from Ubuntu fit into the
>> roadmap for Nexenta? Are there any plans to begin building from 8.04 LTS
>> at some point?
>>
>> Also, I'd like to offer a few words of encouragement to those doing
>> development for Nexenta. I think that what you are doing has a great
>> amount of potential, and I cannot believe that Nexenta hasn't received
>> more attention from Sun. 
>>
>> -Andrew
>>
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