Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: Next Generation Web Stack

2007-03-21 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Tuesday 20 March 2007 11:11 am, Matt Ingenthron wrote: Agreed, and at some level or another, this project will just be packaging what the community around the given component develops, bug for bug complete. I suspect users will understand that already, though it doesn't obviate the need to

[osol-discuss] Opensolaris and IPTV

2007-03-21 Thread Martti Hamunen
Is it possible to look IPTV with Opensolaris. (wwitv.com) Martti This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: joining Sun

2007-03-21 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Tuesday 20 March 2007 08:17 pm, P SRINIVASA RAO wrote: its very nice, to see u here, I am also new to solaris, now I am assured to get a stable version of solaris, under your supervision. Ouch, many of my colleagues will most likely be hurt by that comment. Considering that Solaris is

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris and IPTV

2007-03-21 Thread Ian Collins
Martti Hamunen wrote: Is it possible to look IPTV with Opensolaris. (wwitv.com) It depends which format is being streamed. If real player can play it, you should be OK. Ian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris and IPTV

2007-03-21 Thread Doug Scott
Martti Hamunen wrote: Is it possible to look IPTV with Opensolaris. (wwitv.com) Martti This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org I will assume you are referring to the

Re: [osol-discuss] What is OpenSolaris success?

2007-03-21 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Tuesday 20 March 2007 11:43 pm, James Mansion wrote: Shuttleworth has illustrated how much value there is in strong mangement and leadership, and my concern is that by trying to join the 'developer lead' ranks of 'just show me the code' cowboys Solaris will lose. You don't give Solaris any

[osol-discuss] Video Problem in SX59

2007-03-21 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Just installed SXCE 59 on a nVidia/Athlon64 system. (I know there are quite a few problems, but I wanted to check this build out mainly to see whether the Chinese locale problems have been corrected). Keep getting video out of range message-- thus no screen. Booted into failsafe mode, tried to

[osol-discuss] Re: joining Sun

2007-03-21 Thread UNIX admin
The next big bang may be: Jörg Schilling is joining Debian. Everything seems possible ;) Somehow I seriously doubt that. Jörg showed Debian on number of occassions how crappy the Linux code was, especially the SCSI implementation, delivered patches... instead of embracing him with open arms,

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: joining Sun

2007-03-21 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, UNIX admin wrote: The next big bang may be: Jörg Schilling is joining Debian. Everything seems possible ;) Somehow I seriously doubt that. Jörg showed Debian on number of occassions how crappy the Linux code was, especially the SCSI implementation, delivered patches...

[osol-discuss] Re: Video Problem in SX59

2007-03-21 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Just installed SXCE 59 on a nVidia/Athlon64 system. (I know there are quite a few problems, but I wanted to check this build out mainly to see whether the Chinese locale problems have been corrected). Keep getting video out of range message-- thus no screen. Booted into failsafe mode, tried

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Video Problem in SX59

2007-03-21 Thread Casper . Dik
Now back to my main issue. The derogatory language associated with the traditional Chinese locale has not been corrected. I went back to Build 55b, it was OK there. Apparently someone sneaked in this change in Build 56. As it stands now, Solaris Express will be banned in Taiwan ( Sun will be

[osol-discuss] Re: Preview of Two Solaris Books

2007-03-21 Thread Ryan Chang
嗯,买了Solaris Internals 2nd 正在看,确实很有用,不知Solaris Performance and Tools 国内什么时候出,去年好像听说ERI在翻译? This message posted from opensolaris.org___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Preview of Two Solaris Books

2007-03-21 Thread joey
Ryan Chang wrote: 嗯,买了Solaris Internals 2nd 正在看,确实很有用,不知Solaris Performance and Tools 国内什么时候出,去年好像听说ERI在翻译? Hi Ryan, Thanks for your concerns. The Chinese edition of Solaris Internals 2nd will publish by this June in Mainland China. Please keep tuned with the book list on

blastwave package handling [was Re: [osol-discuss] Re: joining Sun]

2007-03-21 Thread James Carlson
Jason Ozolins writes: Blastwave package upgrade == package remove followed by package install. Not like, say, RPM's handing of upgrades at all. The service stops while the upgrade happens. Not to mention, some of our config files got creamed (this is really the packager's problem rather

[osol-discuss] Update Manager Freezes

2007-03-21 Thread Horvath
Hi all, I installed opensolaris SunOS unknown 5.11 snv_59 i86pc i386 i86pc everything seems to work except when I try register the update manager seem to freeze. I checked the user and password everything is correct and should work. Pardon me for any mistakes since I'm new to Solaris. This

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: joining Sun

2007-03-21 Thread Simon Phipps
On Mar 21, 2007, at 04:46, Artem Kachitchkine wrote: Alan DuBoff wrote: On Tuesday 20 March 2007 02:59 pm, Nicolas Linkert wrote: That's really good news. The next big bang may be: Jörg Schilling is joining Debian. Everything seems possible ;) Ah, now it's all making sense...I did note he

Re: blastwave package handling [was Re: [osol-discuss] Re: joining Sun]

2007-03-21 Thread Moinak Ghosh
James Carlson wrote: Jason Ozolins writes: Blastwave package upgrade == package remove followed by package install. Not like, say, RPM's handing of upgrades at all. The service stops while the upgrade happens. Not to mention, some of our config files got creamed (this is really the

[osol-discuss] apt-get functionality (Was joining Sun)

2007-03-21 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Alan DuBoff wrote: On Monday 19 March 2007 05:13 pm, David Lloyd wrote: Joe, Indeed, apt-get for Solaris would be quite useful :P Isn't that Nexenta? Had to say it. I don't want the Ubuntu Userland on an OpenSolaris code base. I'd prefer a distribution as close to

Re: blastwave package handling [was Re: [osol-discuss] Re: joining Sun]

2007-03-21 Thread James Carlson
Moinak Ghosh writes: A Solaris upgrade (as opposed to patches) uses packages. The difference is that the upgrade process uses SVr4 'admin' files when necessary. Blastwave could do this with instance=overwrite, and probably should, but it doesn't. But overwriting with new

Re: blastwave package handling [was Re: [osol-discuss] Re: joining Sun]

2007-03-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
Jason Ozolins writes: Blastwave package upgrade == package remove followed by package install. Not like, say, RPM's handing of upgrades at all. The service stops while the upgrade happens. Not to mention, some of our config files got creamed (this is really the packager's problem rather

Re: blastwave package handling [was Re: [osol-discuss] Re: joining Sun]

2007-03-21 Thread Martin Bochnig
Dennis Clarke wrote: Jason Ozolins writes: Blastwave package upgrade == package remove followed by package install. Not like, say, RPM's handing of upgrades at all. The service stops while the upgrade happens. Not to mention, some of our config files got creamed (this is really the

Re: blastwave package handling [was Re: [osol-discuss] Re: joining Sun]

2007-03-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
Yes; that's what the 'package history' mechanism is about in Solaris upgrades. It is more complicated than I suggested, and I think there's likely an RFE or two buried in here. In any event, it's not really why we use patches. Patches represent an atomic change to objects in multiple

Re: blastwave package handling [was Re: [osol-discuss] Re: joining Sun]

2007-03-21 Thread James Carlson
Dennis Clarke writes: So now we have some new binaries, some data files that have not changed, some binaries that are the same again. Patch or Package ? It can be either. The current method we employ is to remove the whole collection and use the standards compliant SVR4 tools to achieve

Re: blastwave package handling [was Re: [osol-discuss] Re: joining Sun]

2007-03-21 Thread James Carlson
Martin Bochnig writes: Everyone who thinks he can improve something should go ahead and JOIN BLASTWAVE. Or build up his own stack. Rather than complaining on public lists. If we can't even discuss the issues on a public list, how exactly do you propose that we end up working together on

Re: blastwave package handling [was Re: [osol-discuss] Re: joining Sun]

2007-03-21 Thread James Carlson
Dennis Clarke writes: The other issue that arises here is that a patch has a dependency tree also. If I have a package that requires only a few small changes then a patch makes sense. If I then make another release with a few more changes then we have yet another patch. However these patches

[osol-discuss] Re: blastwave package handling

2007-03-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
Dennis Clarke writes: The other issue that arises here is that a patch has a dependency tree also. If I have a package that requires only a few small changes then a patch makes sense. If I then make another release with a few more changes then we have yet another patch. However these

Re: blastwave package handling [was Re: [osol-discuss] Re: joining Sun]

2007-03-21 Thread Martin Bochnig
James Carlson wrote: Martin Bochnig writes: Everyone who thinks he can improve something should go ahead and JOIN BLASTWAVE. Or build up his own stack. Rather than complaining on public lists. If we can't even discuss the issues on a public list, how exactly do you propose that we

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: blastwave package handling

2007-03-21 Thread James Carlson
Dennis Clarke writes: Do you feel or even think that we can come up with a way to maintain the contents database file as well as perhaps design a better way to roll out software packages? Yes. I think it'd be helpful to have a check pkgmap diffs mode for pkgadd, so that can remove stray

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: blastwave package handling

2007-03-21 Thread Martin Bochnig
James Carlson wrote: And btw, I already did say something to that topic, at least a bit: http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/osdevcon2007/abstracts.html#4_4_1 http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/osdevcon2007/slides/marTux___OSDevCon2007.pdf And Damien Carbery has held a beautiful talk about

[osol-discuss] Re: Update Manager Freezes

2007-03-21 Thread MC
The same happens for me and I think others as well. Blame it on a bad build, I think :) This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Video Problem in SX59

2007-03-21 Thread Ron Halstead
I had a problem with video on NV_59 also. I fixed it by downloading and installing the driver from Nvidia. Can you please provide a link to the svccfg command per Alanc's tutorial. Thanks, Ron Halstead This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: blastwave package handling

2007-03-21 Thread James Carlson
Martin Bochnig writes: http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/osdevcon2007/slides/marTux___OSDevCon2007.pdf [...] http://www.osdevcon.org/2007/slides/pkgbuild-osdevcon07.pdf We were talking about in-place updates of packages, not the means by which packages are constructed. I don't see in either

Re: [osol-discuss] apt-get functionality (Was joining Sun)

2007-03-21 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 08:18 -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Alan DuBoff wrote: On Monday 19 March 2007 05:13 pm, David Lloyd wrote: Joe, Indeed, apt-get for Solaris would be quite useful :P Isn't that Nexenta? Had to say it. I don't want the Ubuntu Userland on an

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: blastwave package handling

2007-03-21 Thread Martin Bochnig
James Carlson wrote: Martin Bochnig writes: http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/osdevcon2007/slides/marTux___OSDevCon2007.pdf [...] http://www.osdevcon.org/2007/slides/pkgbuild-osdevcon07.pdf We were talking about in-place updates of packages, not the means by which

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: blastwave package handling

2007-03-21 Thread James Carlson
Dennis Clarke writes: Dennis Clarke writes: Do you feel or even think that we can come up with a way to maintain the contents database file as well as perhaps design a better way to roll out software packages? Yes. Excellent .. me too. :-) However I can not write up a

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: blastwave package handling

2007-03-21 Thread Octave Orgeron
What if we do something like this: 1. Add parameters to pkgmaps going forward that define certain files as configuration files. These files would normally not be touched during a package upgrade. 2. Add parameters to the pkgmaps that highlight SMF manifests. 3. When a newer version of a package

[osol-discuss] Web Stack NG Project: Questions for the Community

2007-03-21 Thread Stefan Teleman
Hi. The ARC Cases for the WebStack NG Project have been submitted for review (and hopefully approval), and i would like to ask our community's input regarding two important questions which have come up during our discussions: 1. Should the initial components released for this project include

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Video Problem in SX59

2007-03-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Ron Halstead wrote: I had a problem with video on NV_59 also. I fixed it by downloading and installing the driver from Nvidia. Can you please provide a link to the svccfg command per Alanc's tutorial. The svccfg command is only needed if you haven't installed the new driver from nvidia. It

Re: Traditional Chinese locale bug (was: [osol-discuss] Re: Video Problem in SX59)

2007-03-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Now back to my main issue. The derogatory language associated with the traditional Chinese locale has not been corrected. I went back to Build 55b, it was OK there. Apparently someone sneaked in this change in Build 56. As it stands now, Solaris Express will be

Re: [osol-discuss] Web Stack NG Project: Questions for the Community

2007-03-21 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Stefan Teleman wrote: 1. Should the initial components released for this project include the 64-bit bits in the initial Integration ? Desirable, but not mandatory. 2. The currently proposed Apache 2.2.4 integration installs Apache in /usr/apache2, thereby _overwriting_

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: blastwave package handling

2007-03-21 Thread Martin Bochnig
Martin Bochnig wrote: James Carlson wrote: Man, okay. I didn't hit the nail. Let me finally sllep now, good night! Regards, Martin Bochnig ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] bzip2 and gzip man pages for nv_61

2007-03-21 Thread Michelle Olson
Hi all, New man pages for nv_61 are available, we have released in bzip2 archive format AND gzip archive format based on your feedback. 62 new files and 300 changed files for this build. http://dlc.sun.com/osol/man/downloads/current/ Thanks, Michelle This message posted from

Re: [osol-discuss] Web Stack NG Project: Questions for the Community

2007-03-21 Thread Shawn Walker
On 21/03/07, Rich Teer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Stefan Teleman wrote: 2. The currently proposed Apache 2.2.4 integration installs Apache in /usr/apache2, thereby _overwriting_ the existing Apache 2.0.x. Valid arguments have been made pro, and against this approach, with

Re: [osol-discuss] Web Stack NG Project: Questions for the Community

2007-03-21 Thread Stefan Teleman
Shawn Walker wrote: On 21/03/07, Rich Teer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Overwriting the /usr/apache2 that comes on the Solaris media is a no-no, in my opinion, and /usr/apache2.2 just pollutes the /usr namespace even more than it is already. IMHO, the correct place for this is under /opt. I have

[osol-discuss] Re: [sfwnv-discuss] Web Stack NG Project: Questions for the Community

2007-03-21 Thread David . Comay
Stefan, 2. The currently proposed Apache 2.2.4 integration installs Apache in /usr/apache2, thereby _overwriting_ the existing Apache 2.0.x. Valid arguments have been made pro, and against this approach, with the suggestion that Apache 2.2.4 installs in /usr/apache2.2, thereby preserving the

[osol-discuss] Re: [sfwnv-discuss] Web Stack NG Project: Questions for the Community

2007-03-21 Thread Stefan Teleman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefan, 2. The currently proposed Apache 2.2.4 integration installs Apache in /usr/apache2, thereby _overwriting_ the existing Apache 2.0.x. Valid arguments have been made pro, and against this approach, with the suggestion that Apache 2.2.4 installs in

Re: [osol-discuss] Web Stack NG Project: Questions for the Community

2007-03-21 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Stefan Teleman wrote: Please keep in mind that, there are two additional locations for Apache, in addition to the location of the actual binaries [/{usr,opt}/apache2]: /etc/apache2 /var/apache2 These additional two locations *must* exist. Right, if the Apache on the

[osol-discuss] Re: Video Problem in SX59

2007-03-21 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
I had a problem with video on NV_59 also. I fixed it by downloading and installing the driver from Nvidia. Can you please provide a link to the svccfg command per Alanc's tutorial. Thanks, Ron Halstead First, to boot into the 32-bit kernel (per Casper's instruction): change the grub

Re: [osol-discuss] Web Stack NG Project: Questions for the Community

2007-03-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Rich Teer wrote: Overwriting the /usr/apache2 that comes on the Solaris media is a no-no, in my opinion, and /usr/apache2.2 just pollutes the /usr namespace even more than it is already. IMHO, the correct place for this is under /opt. I have no strong feelings either way, but I would prefer

Re: [osol-discuss] Web Stack NG Project: Questions for the Community

2007-03-21 Thread Shawn Walker
On 21/03/07, Stefan Teleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: On 21/03/07, Rich Teer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Overwriting the /usr/apache2 that comes on the Solaris media is a no-no, in my opinion, and /usr/apache2.2 just pollutes the /usr namespace even more than it is already.

Re: [osol-discuss] Web Stack NG Project: Questions for the Community

2007-03-21 Thread Shawn Walker
On 21/03/07, Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rich Teer wrote: Overwriting the /usr/apache2 that comes on the Solaris media is a no-no, in my opinion, and /usr/apache2.2 just pollutes the /usr namespace even more than it is already. IMHO, the correct place for this is under /opt. I

Re: [osol-discuss] Web Stack NG Project: Questions for the Community

2007-03-21 Thread Thomas Rampelberg
I agree completely. Using /etc/opt/apache2 is confusing and seems overly complicated to me personally. If we assume that the whole concept behind the web stack project is ease of use, I think that the whole point is being missed by adding this much complication to it. Shawn Walker wrote: On

Re: [osol-discuss] Web Stack NG Project: Questions for the Community

2007-03-21 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote: These ARC cases are for integration to Solaris, so /opt is inappropriate, and /usr is correct. Oh in that case, I agree. *Provided* that the CoolStack stuff will replace the current stuff on the Solaris distribution media. -- Rich Teer, SCSA,

[osol-discuss] Re: apt-get functionality (Was joining Sun)

2007-03-21 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Erast Benson wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 08:18 -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote: But that just brings us back to Joe's original point: Isn't that Nexenta? Note the Nexenta project is by all rights and intentions (Erast, correct me if I'm wrong) a project of and by the

Re: [osol-discuss] Web Stack NG Project: Questions for the Community

2007-03-21 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Shawn Walker wrote: I never liked the /etc/opt/apache2, and so on that some distributions did as sometimes it wasn't clear which apache2 read what configuration from where, it also made greps by lazy admins (like me) painful ;) Agreed, which is why the docs actually

[osol-discuss] Re: apt-get functionality (Was joining Sun)

2007-03-21 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 12:22 -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote: On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Erast Benson wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 08:18 -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote: But that just brings us back to Joe's original point: Isn't that Nexenta? Note the Nexenta project is by all rights and

Re: [osol-discuss] Web Stack NG Project: Questions for the Community

2007-03-21 Thread John Plocher
Stefan Teleman wrote: 2. The currently proposed Apache 2.2.4 integration installs Apache in /usr/apache2, thereby _overwriting_ the existing Apache 2.0.x. Having recently gone down the path of installing/upgrading Apache on OS-b56, the current scheme is confusing at best. With 2 versions

Re: [osol-discuss] Web Stack NG Project: Questions for the Community

2007-03-21 Thread John Plocher
[responding to my own post - sorry] John Plocher wrote: Stefan Teleman wrote: 2. The currently proposed Apache 2.2.4 integration installs Apache in /usr/apache2, thereby _overwriting_ the existing Apache 2.0.x. As much as I would like to be able to run both old and new side-by-side, it isn't

Re: [osol-discuss] Web Stack NG Project: Questions for the Community

2007-03-21 Thread Stefan Teleman
John Plocher wrote: I should have been clearer - I like this overwrite proposal (as opposed to a the counter of having /usr/apache, /usr/apache2 and /usr/apache2.2), as long as the svc manifest names are the same as used by the current apache2 installation (svc:/network/http:apache) and not,

Re: [sfwnv-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Web Stack NG Project: Questions for the Community

2007-03-21 Thread David . Comay
These ARC cases are for integration to Solaris, so /opt is inappropriate, and /usr is correct. Oh in that case, I agree. *Provided* that the CoolStack stuff will replace the current stuff on the Solaris distribution media. Just for clarification, the integration that Stefan is working on

[osol-discuss] Re: Web Stack NG Project: Questions for the Community

2007-03-21 Thread Ben Taylor
The ARC Cases for the WebStack NG Project have been submitted for review (and hopefully approval), and i would like to ask our community's input regarding two important questions which have come up during our discussions: 1. Should the initial components released for this project

[osol-discuss] Re: Web Stack NG Project: Questions for the Community

2007-03-21 Thread Andrew Pattison
Correct. Existing configuration files will *not* be overwritten. How do you propose handling Apache modules? The module API changed between 2.0 and 2.2, and it is not possible to load 2.0 modules under 2.2 . Cheers Andrew. This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] marTux boots on T2000 - Cosmic thanks and regards to Menno Lageman !!

2007-03-21 Thread James C. McPherson
Martin Bochnig wrote: ### ### ## ## Cosmic thanks and regards to Menno Lageman !! ##

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: blastwave package handling

2007-03-21 Thread Dave Miner
Octave Orgeron wrote: What if we do something like this: [details ellided] At the risk of repeating myself for about the 50th time in the past year, I'd encourage these packaging-related discussions to occur with the community list specifically devoted to them, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those in

Re: [osol-discuss] Web Stack NG Project: Questions for the Community

2007-03-21 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 09:28 am, Stefan Teleman wrote: 2. The currently proposed Apache 2.2.4 integration installs Apache in /usr/apache2, thereby _overwriting_ the existing Apache 2.0.x. Valid arguments have been made pro, and against this approach, with the suggestion that Apache 2.2.4

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: joining Sun

2007-03-21 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 05:59 am, Simon Phipps wrote: Now, y'all boys realize what this leads to. Simon joining MSFT. Don't make me say it! Wait, I just said it... Owh. They stopped calling a year or so ago... That does give you some credence, they stopped calling me close to 20 years

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: blastwave package handling

2007-03-21 Thread Dave Miner
Eric Boutilier wrote: At the risk of repeating myself for about the 50th time in the past year, I'd encourage these packaging-related discussions to occur with the community list specifically devoted to them, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those in the community with ideas can actually start working on

Re: [osol-discuss] Web Stack NG Project: Questions for the Community

2007-03-21 Thread Stefan Teleman
Alan DuBoff wrote: Stefan, Your suggestion above might be the best. The other thing is, what about having 2 seperate directories, keeping the old and adding the new, and using a symlink to point to the desired version. This was one of the other suggestions made on the ARC discuss list. My

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-21 Thread Ian Murdock
On 3/19/07, Dale Ghent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 19, 2007, at 11:53 AM, Ian Murdock wrote: Hi all, Hi, Ian, welcome to the community! Thanks! (SOrry for the delay weighing in--it's been a bit hectic these past few days..) You laid out a general outline of what you'll be doing at Sun,

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
great stuff snipped I AM a newcomer here, which means I come with fresh ideas and a lot of experience (both in what to do and what not to do), but which also means I need to earn my voice. Let the earning begin! You're the real honest to goodness community type person that we need around here

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Fluendo announces multimedia for Linux and

2007-03-21 Thread Jon Trulson
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Brian Cameron wrote: Richard: I think gaim 2.0beta_whatever (maybe from blastwave) uses GStreamer, but I never got it to work (although ISTR some email archives in which that was a known problem not fully resolved). I ended up using NAS (can't remember where I got that)

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: joining Sun

2007-03-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
On Mar 21, 2007, at 04:46, Artem Kachitchkine wrote: Alan DuBoff wrote: On Tuesday 20 March 2007 02:59 pm, Nicolas Linkert wrote: That's really good news. The next big bang may be: Jörg Schilling is joining Debian. Everything seems possible ;) Ah, now it's all making sense...I did note

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-21 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 16:38 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: Really .. its so great to see Mr. Debian here. :-) +1 :-) -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Web Stack NG Project: Questions for the Community

2007-03-21 Thread James Carlson
Alan DuBoff writes: The other thing is, what about having 2 seperate directories, keeping the old and adding the new, and using a symlink to point to the desired version. That's what we do with Java, and it's not nice with sparse zones. I'd expect Apache to be used commonly with zones, so I'd

[osol-discuss] Re: blastwave package handling [was Re: Re: joining Sun]

2007-03-21 Thread Jason Ozolins
Jason Ozolins writes: Blastwave package upgrade == package remove followed by package install. Not like, say, RPM's handing of upgrades at all. The service stops while the upgrade happens. Not to mention, some of our config files got creamed (this is really the packager's problem rather

Re: [osol-discuss] marTux boots on T2000 - Cosmic thanks and regards to Menno Lageman !!

2007-03-21 Thread Martin Bochnig
James C. McPherson wrote: Hi Martin, this is excellent news. I just wish that I had a T2000 to play with so I could explore MarTux in style. Makes me wonder, though - has anybody tried booting MarTux on a StarCat (F15K/25K) or StarKitty (F12K/20K) ? cheers, James C. McPherson -- Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] marTux boots on T2000 - Cosmic thanks and regards to Menno Lageman !!

2007-03-21 Thread Martin Bochnig
Martin Bochnig wrote: Hi, good morning, marTux_0.2 for sparc was pre-mature. Please don't use it. Especially its SMF had been sick. Please don't try it out, before marTux_0.2 for sparc is released (April 30th). err, _0.*3* Regards, Martin

[osol-discuss] Re: blastwave package handling

2007-03-21 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Dave Miner wrote: ... Hey, if it would help get people directed in the right place I'd split off a packaging-discuss list for the SVR4 packaging project, but I tend to doubt it would have any real effect, since these conversations (as was the case here) all too often are

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: blastwave package handling [was Re: Re: joining Sun]

2007-03-21 Thread John Plocher
Jason Ozolins wrote: Umm, I think we're writing at cross purposes here... you don't do a Solaris _upgrade_ to a running OS instance. Live upgrade,...but in either cases, you aren't running services from the OS instance that is being upgraded, which is the case I'm interested in. If I want to

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: blastwave package handling [was Re: Re: joining Sun]

2007-03-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
snippage Jason, it would have been helpful if you had just simply contacted me. I'm generally real real busy but I take things like this quite seriously and so do the team of guys that work on these sort of packages. The list of people involved in Apache and OpenSSL etc at Blastwave is

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: blastwave package handling

2007-03-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
n.b.: I think we need a new subject header. Jason Ozolins wrote: Umm, I think we're writing at cross purposes here... you don't do a Solaris _upgrade_ to a running OS instance. Live upgrade,...but in either cases, you aren't running services from the OS instance that is being upgraded,

Re: [osol-discuss] Web Stack NG Project: Questions for the Community

2007-03-21 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 01:23 pm, Stefan Teleman wrote: This was one of the other suggestions made on the ARC discuss list. My primary concern about keeping both 2.0.x and 2.2.4 around (albeit temporarily) is that it creates the possibility of a huge disaster: application X links againsr

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-21 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 02:32 pm, Erast Benson wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 16:38 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: Really .. its so great to see Mr. Debian here. :-) +1 :-) Thanks Dennis, you have seconds. I'll contact you offline to setup your Debian fan club community.:-/ Seriously, I

[osol-discuss] [SVOSUG] Network Auto-Magic - Tonight! Mar. 22nd, 7:30pm - SCA03

2007-03-21 Thread Alan DuBoff
*** REMINDER *** REMINDER *** REMINDER *** REMINDER *** SVOSUG has what I consider a special meeting this month. John Beck will be giving a presentation on his OpenSolaris project, Network Auto-Magic. You can read about this project on the OpenSolaris webpage at: