Hi Thomas,
Sure, thing!
Erast has compiled b70 and then recently b79 which are available in
the apt.nexenta.org repositories as elatte-testing/elatte-unstable
respectively. b79 has a lot of known issues and is not recommended for
use but the intent is for developers to use it and stabilize it using
patches from b80. There have been reports of upgrades (in the IRC
channel) from the previous beta releases.
an RC1 iso has been made (using b70 bits) and is available at: rsync
nexenta.org::releases/nexenta-core-platform-1.0_RC1.x86.iso
There is an iso that is being internally tested but breaks on
install based on the b79 bits. Once the b79 bits have been made more
stable another iso will be generated for test use and likely released in
a more vocal way than RC1 was.
Martin had to stop working on the project for the time being. The
Nexenta Storage software is potentially in a competitive position
against Sun so he is asking Sun for clearance to work on the project.
Ben Klang has been stepping up his efforts again and has been
helping stabilize b79 bits.
I've been working on zones functionality and testing b79 bits in a
zone (also not stable yet.) Also, in an attempt to compile a bunch of
packages from ubuntu dapper/main I wrote scripts to go and compile
packages that have build depends resolved and do basic tests before
uploading. There are a significant amount of packages that can not be
uploaded because install depends are not in place and do not build out
of the box. The core team has been working to develop a long term model
for keeping patches against upstream sources and last talked about a git
repository.
CSW packages (http://www.blastwave.org/) have been imported to a
special repository and need testing. The repository is available by adding:
deb http://www.nexenta.org/apt/ elatte-unstable csw
All csw package names begin with "csw" and the packages install into
/opt/csw. These packages have been converted using Alien. I have patched
alien quite a bit to do the conversion and left the patched version in
the apt.nexenta.org repository. To fix problems with CSW patches either
need to go to the CSW authors or the alien conversion needs to be
updated a little more (in which case patches/bug reports come to Nexenta.)
There has been talk in the IRC channel about how to contribute to
the project. Currently there are some outstanding issues that need to be
resolved:
Website migration from gnusolaris.org to nexenta.org (being worked on
actively)
Documentation of new resources (launchpad for bugs and personal
repositories, dput for uploads to nexenta, and some others)
Redistribution license from Sun so that Nexenta can redistribute Sun
binaries (like Sun Pro compilers as well as other Sun Software products)
Discussion on ways to keep/ways to break compatibility with
OpenSolaris/Debian. (A little discussion has happened but we need a lot
more)
Migration of Mailing lists from gnusol* to nexenta*
(Some more that aren't coming from the top of my head)
There seems to be a continued interest for Nexenta as a Desktop
platform but nobody has stepped up to develop/maintain that portion of
the repository yet. I hope that an autobuilder will help in getting
packages into the Nexenta platform but the fear is that quality will go
down as packages are simply built automatically. We need a model for
this that everyone/almost everyone will agree on. Also, having a
redistribution license would make this more possible as well.
The past couple of months have been busy so there is a good chance I
am missing something here. If that's the case and you know about it,
speak up! :)
Happy New Year Nexenta!
-Tim
Thomas Garner wrote:
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