On Wed 30 Jan 2008 at 07:49PM, Bart Smaalders wrote:
> Shawn Walker wrote:
> > Are any of you that are developing ips using Indiana yet?
> >
> > I'm wanting to get more involved now that I've followed the project
> > for a little while, and I don't want to "swim upstream" unless I have
> > to.
> >
> > I've read the "Developer Information" page here:
> > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/pkg/devinfo/
> >
> > and the todo here (which seems slightly behind the times):
> > http://opensolaris.org/sc/src/pkg/gate/doc/TODO
> >
> > What's the work environment that some of you have setup?
> >
> > Thanks,
>
> I'm using it for testing; my desktop has lots of state
> (home directory, mail ,etc) so I've been waiting to switch.
> I'll planning on switching machines and going to multiple
> pools & disks to maintain my persistent state safely.
I'm getting there... I want to be doing most of my day to day stuff
at work on it. My primary desktop is SPARC, so I need to do some
rejiggering since we don't have SPARC based bits yet. I'm hoping that
in the next few weeks I'll get it sorted out.
One problem I need to work out is that some things I like and have grown
accustomed to (like, say, MP3 support in Rhythmbox, Flash Player, etc.)
are not included for (I presume) legal reasons. I can obviously
work around this by downloading the appropriate packages from
appropriate vendors.
In terms of hacking on IPS itself, it's quite easy to configure it
with environment variables so that it does everything in e.g. /tmp.
That's how I do my work, and how the test suite works. Another option
is to use the IPS bits on regular Solaris nevada to create an IPS zone.
At least, that worked at one point, but I need to go retest it for
Preview2...
-dp
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