Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris equivalent to AIX Physical Partition (PP) Layout

2006-01-04 Thread James Carlson
Nathan Phan writes: The course emphasized extensively on the placement of each logical volume's PP i.e. the above physical partitioning (1016) layout...either on the outer edge, middle or inner edge of the cylinderical disk. They allow you to specify where to place the PP, this

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Eric Boutilier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In light of all the recent work that's been done to bring Debian PM (apt) and Debian source repository support to Solaris, what would be the advantage to using pkgsrc over Debian? (That is, unless you're talking about having two package registries --

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 13:34, Joerg Schilling wrote: We would need a few simple extensions to pkgadd to increase the usability. Which are ? It can already download packages over http or https (with support for proxies specified in the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-04 Thread Richard Lowe
Joerg Schilling wrote: Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 13:34, Joerg Schilling wrote: We would need a few simple extensions to pkgadd to increase the usability. Which are ? It can already download packages over http or https (with support for proxies

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-04 Thread Casper . Dik
BTW: I see a http proxy option but no hint on how to use pkgadd via the network. pkgadd -d http:// Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-04 Thread Darren J Moffat
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 13:44, Joerg Schilling wrote: There are more (I curently don't remember the other ones) but the most important would be to make pkgadd able to autmatically install a list of packages in the right order, BTW: I see a http proxy option but no hint on how to use

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-04 Thread Darren J Moffat
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 13:49, Richard Lowe wrote: You're right though, it doesn't appear to be documented in pkgadd(1M), or anywhere else I can find. It is documented as the last sentence of the paragraph describing the -d option on pkgadd(1m). One other thing, packages (and patches) can also

[osol-discuss] Trying out Blastwave on BeeniX

2006-01-04 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Hi, A couple of days back I did a little experiment with trying to use Blastwave packages on BeleniX 0.3 (which includes the pkg* binaries installed in harddisk and was successful after a few hiccups: Blastwave packages have dependencies on SUNW packages (seems a little curious to me). So the

Re: [osol-discuss] Trying out Blastwave on BeeniX

2006-01-04 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Moinak Ghosh wrote: So the point here is that C++ stuff compiled using Sun Studio requires stuff that can is only available as part of Solaris Express or as part of the Sun Studio software itself. An OpenSolaris distro other than SX will not be able to C++ code compiled using Sun Studio out

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dave Miner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The package sources are being actively worked on - the roadmap says they'll be there this quarter, and we do believe that will be the case. That's nice to hear. I'm not sure what an OpenSolaris compliant sticker would be designed to achieve, though, or

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-04 Thread Mike Ditto
Joerg Schilling wrote: Dave Miner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what an OpenSolaris compliant sticker would be designed to achieve, though, or why SVR4 packages are necessarily a part of it. Well I hope that the proliferation of OpenSolaris-based distros doesn't create a proliferation

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-04 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 17:19 -0800, Mike Ditto wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: Dave Miner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what an OpenSolaris compliant sticker would be designed to achieve, though, or why SVR4 packages are necessarily a part of it. Well I hope that the proliferation of

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: How to kill X-Server?

2006-01-04 Thread James C. McPherson
Michael T Kotlarski wrote: The reason I need to kill the X server from ever starting is because whatever the X-settings on this system are are incompatible with this monitor (Viewsonic G773) causing it to have a frequency out of range error. So, all solutions regarding in-X commands are not

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris X86/Amd64 and chipsets

2006-01-04 Thread Ben Rockwood
Lars Tunkrans wrote: Ben Rockwood wrote: You said it, the HCL is the answer. The problem is that not enough of us (myself included) are actually contributing enough to it. If we'd all pitch in it'd be a much more useful resource. While the HCL may have some limits, I don't think we can