I'm part way through this long project now. I began with v9os installed on a Sun T2000. v9os is a SPARC distribution that uses IPS packages. I've been building IPS packages from oi-userland source. This process has gotten easier now that all the build tools I need are in IPS packages. I've been replacing v9os packages with oi-userland packages. My goal is to replace all of them, and finally to produce a text ISO and package repository for SPARC that's entirely based on oi-userland.
So far, I've built and packaged versions 5, 6, and 7 of the gcc compiler. The commands for IPS packages are all packaged for python 2.7. My system now has 106 packages installed from oi-userland, versus 343 packages from v9os. Most of the oi-userland products required very few or no changes to build and package for SPARC. For perl, I've removed the 5.16.1 version from v9os and installed versions 5.22 and 5.24 from oi-userland. Likewise, for python, I've removed 2.6 and installed 2.7 and 3.4. Perl libraries are all packaged for 5.22. Python libraries are all packaged for 2.7. I'm submitting this message to the mailing list mostly as a progress report. I would, of course, appreciate a bit of help with this project. -- -Gary Mills- -refurb- -Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
