Thanks Martin :) > On 11 May 2013 at 00:43 Martin Bochnig <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you Garrett, all. > Ok, I don't like to dictate anything. > Just try and C. > > Q: > > When will it ship. > > A: > > In the past I never held a single date, to make such predictions is usually > difficult. > This time, though, it is different, because during creation of the SPARC > version, I modified all pkgdefs in advance always also for i386 and amd64, in > the same source tree. > So there is little guessing involved, as I had already compiled almost > everything on x86 in October (at the then current state), and afterwards > _always_ keept the pkgdefs in sync by definition, until in had to stop on > January 30th. For example, before I continued with SPARC in October, I tar'ed > everything over after the compile on x86. > > So the only real task involved: Move my disks containing the devel pool over > to my prepared DualCore Celeron 2.4GHz (with Sandy bridge), re-build it, just > "make install -k"'ing the SVR4 packages and also build JDS and its packages, > the same accordingly for all gates. > The only actual work is to fix a few packaging build errors , where it fails. > So on those places where it was difficult to write the pkgdefs for x86 > blindly, while I did this on SPARC. > > The 1rst part of the selfhosting work is also completed on SPARC, this > actually had distracted me last week from continuing with x86. > Now I identiefied the very files that are missing. However, this is not yet > reflected by corrected pkgdefs. I think most of us find it more important to > have something to run and test on x86. So let me suspend selfhosting, although > only the last mile needs to be gone. All focus shifted to the May 18th release > of our first x86_64 version of OpenSXCE. > > I won't have time to read/answer/write email. > So the next thing you will hear from me is the download link, on May18th. > > p.s. Garrett: I fully understand why you prefer IPS as the basis in Illumos. > Only to avoid a misunderstanding, OpenSXCE does not use IPS's manifests in > any way. > Here again, why: > > > <http://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2012-December/010921.html> > > > """ > > There would have been 2 fundamental approaches: Easy and tougher. > The first would be to take all IPS manifests and convert them > semi-automated to SVR4 prototype/pkginfo/depend files. > And simply to keep all the new pkg sets and pkg names and dependencies > just intact. > This would certainly be nice and interesting. Maybe someone want's to > do that, too :) > However, this would break dependency resolution backwards > compatibility to all legacy SVR4 packages in existance. > > For this reason, I neglected it. > > The second one was, to reverse-engineer everything back to the old times. > And that's what I did. > > Not just for Illumos/OSnet, but for ___all___ consolidations. > Not just to get old pkgdefs to build without failiure (where they are > available), but also to re-assign more than 15 thousand (!) unassigned > files to new pkgdefs (this number for Illumos ON alone!!!) > Also it was necessary to take older G11N checkouts (just as one > example), because we need the good old /usr/openwin > internationalization stuff as well, for OpenXsun. > """ > > > > > > Somebody can try it the other (way easier and million times more convenient) > way. > But then this breaks legacy SUNW* deps. > > tnx > > > %martin > > > >
_______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
