[osol-discuss] Re: pthread_attr_getstack broken?

2005-06-29 Thread Alan J. Burlison
See http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5137/6mba5vpja?a=view - a staddr of NULL and a stsize of zero means the system defaults are being used. Also, make sure the pthread_attr_t object has been initialized properly with pthread_attr_init() before it is passed to any of the other

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Help: Schillix 0.1 booted without GUI

2005-06-29 Thread Joerg Schilling
Xirui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm... The second one sounds easier. :-) How long will it take? I can't tell. The next release will definitely not have a GUI. I am not sure about the release after the next one ;-) Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin

Re: [osol-discuss] bite-size bugs

2005-06-29 Thread Eric Schrock
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 08:48:16PM +0200, Jasse Jansson wrote: And how will the community test those fixes in a proper way? Are the special test tools needed (yeah, I know they exist) or will 'continuous use' count as testing? Well, I'm not on the 'test list', maybe I should subscribe to

[osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris User Group Community

2005-06-29 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Hey, guys. I'm getting a lot of calls regarding user groups, and some user groups are already starting to crop up out there -- Brazil, UK, USA, Australia, and I hear the Canadians are interested. There's also been some interest at universities, too, so this could get pretty big. Special

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Eric Boutilier
Tending to be a bit of a reductionist, I can't help but throw out what I think is the #1 foundational question here. What's the best package architecture (database) standard for OpenSolaris? The canonicial choices, listed alphabetically, are: * deb * pkgsrc (implemented by pkgsrc system) *

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting the source...

2005-06-29 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, Okay, I know JDS hasn't been released as part of the OpenSolaris project. However, as a Solaris user, I obviously have the right to obtain certain parts of it because of the license they're under, such as Metacity, etc. Where can I get the source tarballs from? Or whom do I contact so

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 15:43, Eric Boutilier wrote: - A big strike against deb and portage (for Solaris/OpenSolaris) is that no work's been done yet. - A big strike against Solaris packaging is it's not open-source yet. - A big point in favor of Solaris packaging is compatibiltiy with

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Chris Ricker
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Eric Boutilier wrote: My 2 cents: - A big strike against deb and portage (for Solaris/OpenSolaris) is that no work's been done yet. - A big strike against Solaris packaging is it's not open-source yet. - A big point in favor of Solaris packaging is compatibiltiy

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 02:43:27PM -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote: Tending to be a bit of a reductionist, I can't help but throw out what I think is the #1 foundational question here. What's the best package architecture (database) standard for OpenSolaris? The canonicial choices, listed

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris User Group Community

2005-06-29 Thread Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck
Jim, one thing we did in the beginning was provide a template for a website and offer hosting that linked to a common repository of resources (software, FAQs, etc.). In some cases all they did was translate the site into their native language. Here are a couple more examples of the older

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Shawn Walker
These questions to me frame the entire set of problems for any existing packaging system that tries to integrate with a native one or when you have a 3rd party providing the packages instead of the original project. On 6/29/05, Keith M Wesolowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - If new packages are

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Darren J Moffat wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 12:43, Eric Boutilier wrote: Tending to be a bit of a reductionist, I can't help but throw out what I think is the #1 foundational question here. What's the best package architecture (database) standard for OpenSolaris?

Re: [osol-discuss] b17 copying behaviour?

2005-06-29 Thread Dragan Cvetkovic
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Rich Teer wrote: On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Dragan Cvetkovic wrote: after starting truss -afe -o /dev/null -p 2079, it managed to copy some 10MB of data in one minute or so, but after killing truss, it takes 5 minutes to copy 2MB of data. What is going on here? How can I find

[osol-discuss] Source Browser for Mozilla/Firefox

2005-06-29 Thread Ben Rockwood
I wrote an engine interface for Mozilla/Firefox search. Nab it in my blog: http://cuddletech.com/blog/ benr. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Laszlo Peter
I feel like it's time to mention my baby: pkgbuild (pkgbuild.sf.net), which is an rpmbuild replacement that produces Solaris SVr4 packages. This is what we use for building JDS/Solaris (all GNOME, Mozilla, Evolution, APOC). We have rpm spec files [with a few enhancements], patches and community

Re: [dtrace-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] b17 copying behaviour?

2005-06-29 Thread Dragan Cvetkovic
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Gavin Maltby wrote: Hi Dragan, Hi Gavin, On 06/30/05 00:00, Dragan Cvetkovic wrote: [cut] Where is the cp source, btw? usr/src/cmd/mv - cp and mv have common source. Ah, that explains it. Another example of slow transfer: copying these 4 isos to our install

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 05:37:59PM -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote: So them is this commuity here, and the distribution is SchilliX. So in that context, What suites us? is the issue I'm raising. I'd think the packaging system used by SchilliX is for Joerg to decide, in concert with his user base,

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Shawn Walker
On 6/29/05, Eric Boutilier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So it seems to me that one feasible path would be to take a minimal OpenSolaris-based OS (SchilliX) and integrate an rpm registry onto it -- at least for now. Then when Solaris packaging (svr4) is open-sourced, migrating to a svr4 registry