> Manoj Joseph wrote:
>> Moinak Ghosh wrote:
>>> In addition apart from complete SVR4 packaging for
>>> ON base already present in 0.6, next release will also add
>>> packaging for more FOSS stuff - aim is to get full packaging
>>> done by 0.7.
To Moinak Ghosh and team.
This is a staggeringly beautiful release. Simply put, it is a
brilliant shining example of a perfectly viable community based
OpenSolaris based distribution.
Moinak, let me know if there is anything I can do to help, at least
from an infrastructure perspective as well as whatever else. I did
a significant upgrade here in the Blastwave stack this weekend and
am now sporting a full snv_63 collection of build servers. These are
for community usage and accounts are free to those that need them.
>> I guess at some point, you would reach a point where you can't have
>> everything on a single DVD.
>
> True. Though with compression one DVD can probably contain about 10G
> of software.
I think that Martin Bochniq did something like this with marTux and
once you boot it you see that there is multiple gig of open source
software in there. All of it was taken from the Blastwave build
stack months ago.
Can I make a suggestion ?
An idea that I have been tinkering with ( in my spare time ) is to
create a very small 80mm pocket sized CDROM based installer which
boots up a custom miniroot and then runs installer code from there.
That small little CDROM should have the basic facilities to allow
a disk ( or set ) to be partitioned, formatted and then create the
basic UFS filesystems. Possibly ZFS but that can come later. Then
the "installer" CDROM would allow a tree of SVR4 package files to
be fetched from various mirrors. This is what Blastwave does now
with all the open source software. It would be trivial, from a
problem perspective, to setup a catalog with md5 sigs etc that allow
the entire operating system to be dragged down and installed
package by package. I want to look closely at BeleniX 0.6 today
and then see if SVR4 package prototypes exist or not. Really, I
don't see a modern OS on the market that still ships as a stack
of old-fashioned DVD's or thirty five CDROM's. Putting and end
to the multiple DVD download trauma sooner than later would be a
decent concept I think. Certainly after we add a few thousand
open source software packages onto the distro.
Just a suggestion however :-)
>> Perhaps sometime down the road, you could consider hosting a package
>> repository. What is not on the CD/DVD could be downloaded off the
>> repository.
bingo .. see above.
>> Perhaps, then, the packages from the BeleniX repository could be used
>> on other Opensolaris distributions (SXCE, SXDE...) which support SVR4
>> packaging and on Solaris. pkg-get or something similar could be used
>> to get the packages...
Maybe it would be better if we get behind one distro and one vision
as opposed to flying all over the place with multiple fractured
projects. Keep in mind that I do NOT see Solaris Express as a
community release. That is a product beta release from Sun and
not a community release. BeleniX is the *real* thing and I don't
care who you work for or who pays the bills. Does anyone ask me
where I get my money for Blastwave? No. People just use it.
So maybe a bit of harmony here would help.
Again, just a suggestion.
> To begin with there will be source packaging based on Pkgbuild, JDS
> CBE and Spec Files Extra repository like Emerge. Binary repository
> has to be looked at
> subsequently. pkg-get is already included from 0.5 onwards so
> Blastwave packages can also be used.
This makes me happy because you are not throwing away years of work
that have already been done by the community.
Dennis Clarke
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