Re: [oi-dev] Where should SPARC go?

2020-01-21 Thread Peter Tribble
Andrew, Welcome! On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 2:16 PM Andrew Luke Nesbit < ullbek...@andrewnesbit.org> wrote: > On 17/01/2020 14:32, Volker A. Brandt wrote: > > Hi Andrew! > > Hi Volker! Thank you for the warm and encouraging message. > > >> I have been discussing my options for what OS to install

Re: [oi-dev] Where should SPARC go?

2020-01-21 Thread Andrew Luke Nesbit
On 17/01/2020 14:32, Volker A. Brandt wrote: Hi Andrew! Hi Volker! Thank you for the warm and encouraging message. I have been discussing my options for what OS to install on a Sun T5140. I plan to use this as a multi-user OS, virtualization host, and ZFS file server. The T5140 are nice

Re: [oi-dev] Where should SPARC go?

2020-01-17 Thread Volker A. Brandt
Hi Andrew! > I have been discussing my options for what OS to install on a Sun > T5140. I plan to use this as a multi-user OS, virtualization host, > and ZFS file server. The T5140 are nice machines. > It will be exposed to the Internet so other users can log in to the > base OS or their

Re: [oi-dev] Where should SPARC go?

2019-12-13 Thread Michal Nowak via oi-dev
On 12/12/19 03:13 PM, Gary Mills wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 09:34:03AM +0100, Michal Nowak via oi-dev wrote: Thanks for your answers, Gary. One point of clarification below: On 11/27/19 03:58 PM, Gary Mills wrote: * we don't test that changes build the less work on SPARC I don't

Re: [oi-dev] Where should SPARC go?

2019-12-12 Thread Gary Mills
On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 09:34:03AM +0100, Michal Nowak via oi-dev wrote: > Thanks for your answers, Gary. One point of clarification below: > > On 11/27/19 03:58 PM, Gary Mills wrote: > > > * we don't test that changes build the less work on SPARC > > > > I don't understand this condition. > >

Re: [oi-dev] Where should SPARC go?

2019-12-11 Thread Michal Nowak via oi-dev
Thanks for your answers, Gary. One point of clarification below: On 11/27/19 03:58 PM, Gary Mills wrote: * we don't test that changes build the less work on SPARC I don't understand this condition. "It's not required to test update (PR) on SPARC for it to be merged." Is this wording

Re: [oi-dev] Where should SPARC go?

2019-11-26 Thread ken mays via oi-dev
Gary, 1. Testing a newer compile of the current illumos-gate snapshot seems reasonable to ensure everything still works with your SPARC-related changes. Ref: https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/f52943a93040563107b95bccb9db87d9971ef47d I'll review your SPARC-related tickets,

Re: [oi-dev] Where should SPARC go?

2019-11-26 Thread Gary Mills
On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 08:40:58PM +, Peter Tribble wrote: >On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 8:43 PM Gary Mills <[1]gary_mi...@fastmail.fm> >wrote: > > I have no doubt that SPARC owners are in the minority.� My estimate > is > about 12 users and 6 developers. > >That's

Re: [oi-dev] Where should SPARC go?

2019-11-26 Thread Michal Nowak
On 11/22/19 09:43 PM, Gary Mills wrote: On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 10:56:11PM +0100, Michal Nowak wrote: On 11/17/19 10:39 PM, Gary Mills wrote: I have a series of questions to ask the members of this mailing list. I have information to share with you as well. I already have partial answers to

Re: [oi-dev] Where should SPARC go?

2019-11-24 Thread Gary Mills
On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 09:16:16PM +0100, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: > Am 24.11.19 um 21:13 schrieb Gary Mills: > >> Here I have updated mozilla-nspr and mozilla-nss and included > >> variant-settings from https://www.illumos.org/issues/11925. > > I don't see any of the architure variants in the

Re: [oi-dev] Where should SPARC go?

2019-11-24 Thread Peter Tribble
On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 8:43 PM Gary Mills wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 10:56:11PM +0100, Michal Nowak wrote: > > On 11/17/19 10:39 PM, Gary Mills wrote: > > > I have a series of questions to ask the members of this mailing list. > > > I have information to share with you as well. I already

Re: [oi-dev] Where should SPARC go?

2019-11-24 Thread Andreas Wacknitz
Am 24.11.19 um 21:13 schrieb Gary Mills: > On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 03:55:11PM +0100, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: >> I have created another PR related to Gary's bug reports: >> https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/pull/5405 >> >> Here I have updated mozilla-nspr and mozilla-nss and included >>

Re: [oi-dev] Where should SPARC go?

2019-11-24 Thread Gary Mills
On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 03:55:11PM +0100, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: > > I have created another PR related to Gary's bug reports: > https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/pull/5405 > > Here I have updated mozilla-nspr and mozilla-nss and included > variant-settings from

Re: [oi-dev] Where should SPARC go?

2019-11-24 Thread Andreas Wacknitz
Hi all, I have just created the first PR from Gary's bug reports: https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/pull/5404 Regards Andreas ___ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev

Re: [oi-dev] Where should SPARC go?

2019-11-22 Thread Gary Mills
On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 11:34:10AM +0100, Olaf Bohlen wrote: > Gary Mills writes: > > > What we really need right now is remote access to the package > > repository. I believe that pkg.depotd will do that, but I've never > > tried it. > > Oh, I already serve your repo (internally) with

Re: [oi-dev] Where should SPARC go?

2019-11-22 Thread Gary Mills
On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 10:56:11PM +0100, Michal Nowak wrote: > On 11/17/19 10:39 PM, Gary Mills wrote: > > I have a series of questions to ask the members of this mailing list. > > I have information to share with you as well. I already have partial > > answers to most of the questions, but I'd

Re: [oi-dev] Where should SPARC go?

2019-11-22 Thread Volker A. Brandt
Olaf Bohlen writes: > Gary Mills writes: > > > What we really need right now is remote access to the package > > repository. I believe that pkg.depotd will do that, but I've never > > tried it. > > Oh, I already serve your repo (internally) with pkg.depotd, I can > set up a public repo, but

Re: [oi-dev] Where should SPARC go?

2019-11-22 Thread Olaf Bohlen
Gary Mills writes: > What we really need right now is remote access to the package > repository. I believe that pkg.depotd will do that, but I've never > tried it. Oh, I already serve your repo (internally) with pkg.depotd, I can set up a public repo, but I'd prefer to have it on the

Re: [oi-dev] Where should SPARC go?

2019-11-19 Thread Gary Mills
On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 01:14:26PM +0100, Olaf Bohlen wrote: > Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev writes: > > > So, I see the following 'ideal' world. > > 1) There's a set of OI/SPARC build zones, available to OI developers. > > I can provide multiple build zones on a seperate LDOM. I need to > know

Re: [oi-dev] Where should SPARC go?

2019-11-19 Thread Olaf Bohlen
Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev writes: Hi, > So, I see the following 'ideal' world. > 1) There's a set of OI/SPARC build zones, available to OI developers. I can provide multiple build zones on a seperate LDOM. I need to know how many zones are needed and how much disk-space they need. > 4)

Re: [oi-dev] Where should SPARC go?

2019-11-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 11/18/19 8:44 AM, ken mays via oi-dev wrote: 3. Packages built on your distro working elsewhere (i.e. DilOS, Tribblix, OpenSXCE, S11.x SPARC) and/or pre-existing SPARC packages working on your distro. Solaris 11.x & illumos are not 100% binary compatible with each other. They maintain

Re: [oi-dev] Where should SPARC go?

2019-11-18 Thread Peter Tribble
Gary, First of all, congratulations on getting this far! I know from experience that it's a non-trivial exercise :-( On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 9:39 PM Gary Mills wrote: > I have a series of questions to ask the members of this mailing list. > I have information to share with you as well. I

Re: [oi-dev] Where should SPARC go?

2019-11-18 Thread ken mays via oi-dev
Hi Gary, Well, good answers abound! As you've put much effort into keeping SPARC machines alive through the OpenIndiana project, let us reviewa long arm supportable approach to this issue: 1. Maintain your bug reports through OI bug tracker.and tag new/old SPARC-related issues with 'sparc'. I

Re: [oi-dev] Where should SPARC go?

2019-11-17 Thread Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev
Hi, Gary. От: Gary Mills Отправлено: 18 ноября 2019 г. 0:39 Кому: oi-dev@openindiana.org Тема: [oi-dev] Where should SPARC go? > First of all, how much interest do you have in OI on SPARC? My interest is as a developer and tester. What is y

[oi-dev] Where should SPARC go?

2019-11-17 Thread Gary Mills
I have a series of questions to ask the members of this mailing list. I have information to share with you as well. I already have partial answers to most of the questions, but I'd still like to hear from you. First of all, how much interest do you have in OI on SPARC? My interest is as a