On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Giovanni Tirloni <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> As some Oracle employees have already pointed out, that distribution is
> *their* product. If that's the true spirit of things, it would make sense
> why commits are not public and they probably see integrating the b134{a,b,c}
> code into the public repository as a contribution to the OpenSolaris
> project.
>
Sorry for answering myself here.
I don't know why but I expected that the release build to be available in
the Mercurial repository after it gets released.
$ hg clone -r b111b ssh://[email protected]/hg/onnv/onnv-gate
abort: unknown revision 'b111b'!
So no, you cannot build previous releases of the OpenSolaris distribution
making it a closed product. How can one expect it to be a "reference binary
distribution" ? I expected "reference" to mean something you can build on.
IMHO, a complete fork might not be the best option due to all the
engineering effort required but contributing to a distribution that's not
the official OpenSolaris binary distribution from Oracle/Sun is well within
the resources of the community.
Please someone correct me if I'm wrong about the source code availability of
build 111b. I'm probably missing something.
As I've often stated, it's all a matter of figuring where one wants to be
and adjusting expectations. It's just hard to figure it out sometimes so
there are a lot of missed expectations.
--
Giovanni
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