[oi-dev] What comes next?

2012-09-04 Thread Damian Wojslaw
Hello So, all you OpenIndiana developers, whom I admire, what comes next? :) I've seen few people declaring they would like to help, I think packaging was mostly mentioned. Please, let me ask few questions. 1. Is this link still valid? http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/IPS+Knowledge 2. What

Re: [oi-dev] What comes next?

2012-09-04 Thread ken mays
The desktop for OpenSolaris is not an issue nor major desktop apps. Most of the major apps were ported and some specs live in SFE. You can look at distros like Shillix or even Solaris 11. Do you need Xorg 7.7 or Xfce 4.10? What specific hardware do you have and what does not work?

Re: [oi-dev] What comes next?

2012-09-04 Thread Nick Zivkovic
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 8:19 AM, ken mays maybird1...@yahoo.com wrote: The desktop for OpenSolaris is not an issue nor major desktop apps. Most of the major apps were ported and some specs live in SFE. You can look at distros like Shillix or even Solaris 11. Do you need Xorg 7.7 or Xfce

Re: [oi-dev] What comes next?

2012-09-04 Thread Nick Zivkovic
Other distros will better serve those who need a very, very lean system. OI is meant to facilitate usable desktop variant of Illumos for power users who need a better hobby than linux administration ;) On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 8:19 AM, ken mays maybird1...@yahoo.com wrote: The desktop for

Re: [oi-dev] Desktop Illumos Still Matters

2012-09-04 Thread Andrew M. Hettinger
My thoughts. Remember, they are probably only worth what you paid for them! ;p Nick Zivkovic zivkovic.n...@gmail.com wrote on 09/01/2012 10:42:14 AM: Yes. I am more interested in contributing drivers and the like. As far as packages go, to be honest, I've experienced torture at the hands of

Re: [oi-dev] New Project Lead?

2012-09-04 Thread Nick Zivkovic
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Andrew M. Hettinger ahettin...@prominic.net wrote: +1 I'd like to see this lead by a committee with a written governance structure. That way we don't have to worry about this in the future, and it's not on one persons shoulders. My complaint right now is I

Re: [oi-dev] Desktop Illumos Still Matters

2012-09-04 Thread Nick Zivkovic
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Andrew M. Hettinger ahettin...@prominic.net wrote: My thoughts. Remember, they are probably only worth what you paid for them! ;p Nick Zivkovic zivkovic.n...@gmail.com wrote on 09/01/2012 10:42:14 AM: Yes. I am more interested in contributing drivers and the

[oi-dev] Please comment #2314 isc-dhcp

2012-09-04 Thread gary
I've cleaned up and updated isc-dhcp to 4.2.4-R1. This already has the updates provided by Oracle so I removed the patches which are not required. I also removed duplicate items in the p5m file and fixed the Makefile so the BIND sub-module gets built correctly. This is my first foray into helping

Re: [oi-dev] Please comment #2314 isc-dhcp

2012-09-04 Thread Adam Števko
Hi Gary, welcome to packaging stuff. I am resending this to userland list at illumos.org. Please, change the OpenSolaris CDDL license to the Illumos one, the text can be found at https://bitbucket.org/xenol/illumos-userland-2162/src/24656bd2ab51/components/zabbix-agent/Makefile for example.

Re: [oi-dev] Desktop Illumos Still Matters

2012-09-04 Thread Alasdair Lumsden
I've actually realised it would be really useful if there was a single document explaining all this stuff, a kind of In the beginning there was... style walk through of how things came to be. I'll try to write one over the next few weeks and put it on the wiki, as it would probably help new

Re: [oi-dev] Desktop Illumos Still Matters

2012-09-04 Thread Francois Dion
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Nick Zivkovic zivkovic.n...@gmail.com wrote: 2) document every single IPS failure and either fix the packages or the IPS code (depend on what caused the failure), and First thought here is that it needs to be in the bug tracker, but that may not be easily