On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 11:59 AM Gary Mills <gary_mi...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 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. > Congratulations Gary this is great :) If we get to the point that we can setup a build machine this would secure your work. Kind regards Aurélien > > > -- > -Gary Mills- -refurb- -Winnipeg, Manitoba, > Canada- > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > oi-dev@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev > -- --- Praise the Caffeine embeddings
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