Re: [osol-discuss] community driven distro...

2010-05-23 Thread Josh Hurst
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Alan DuBoff al...@softorchestra.com wrote: The comment about GNU is IMO unjustified. The ksh93-integration and ATT team have done a much better technical job than GNU in the last four years. We got ksh93, a lot of modernized tools, even more in the work, with

Re: [osol-discuss] community driven distro...

2010-05-23 Thread Alan DuBoff
You picked a bad example. GNU tar has its own share of problems. By default no other achiever than GNU tar can unpack long path names in archives created by GNU tar. Maybe I just got lucky... [al...@eagle Documents]$ gtar zcvf ./test.tgz tmp tmp/ tmp/split log cut.jpg tmp/Trailer Photo this

Re: [osol-discuss] community driven distro...

2010-05-23 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
[...] You picked a bad example. GNU tar has its own share of problems. By default no other achiever than GNU tar can unpack long path names in archives created by GNU tar. That's a big problem. It becomes worse because tar archives with long path names created with GNU tar from 2002 can't

Re: [osol-discuss] still newbie, help with 2010.03

2010-05-23 Thread john kroll
can NOT read / write data to NTFS This probably does not answer any of your questions but the only way I found to keep OS at NTFS is to reinstall it first to that partition. Then install the open Solaris OS; its grub will pick back up that now nonactive boot layer. This is a start over

Re: [osol-discuss] community driven distro...

2010-05-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan DuBoff al...@softorchestra.com wrote: You picked a bad example. GNU tar has its own share of problems. By default no other achiever than GNU tar can unpack long path names in archives created by GNU tar. Maybe I just got lucky... [al...@eagle Documents]$ gtar zcvf ./test.tgz

Re: [osol-discuss] community driven distro...

2010-05-23 Thread Alan DuBoff
A test with _short_ path names does not prove anything - sorry. Jörg, WTF do I need to do then? I was told that you couldn't unarchive any long filenames with another tar, that it wouldn't work. Do I need to rub my tummy, while hopping around on one leg in a full moon? Or do I need to do

Re: [osol-discuss] community driven distro...

2010-05-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan DuBoff al...@softorchestra.com wrote: A test with _short_ path names does not prove anything - sorry. Jörg, WTF do I need to do then? I was told that you couldn't unarchive any long filenames with another tar, that it wouldn't work. You did run a test with less than 100 chars

Re: [osol-discuss] community driven distro...

2010-05-23 Thread Peter Jones
Josh WTF, we can't even use the cough (Open)Solaris name. Why don't we rename the organisation then? OGB should hold a contest and community vote and then move all servers to the new name. Well my vote is for (O pen S olars 1 edition) or OS1 for short. -- This message posted from

Re: [osol-discuss] An effort to rally around - building a real, community driven distro...

2010-05-23 Thread Tomas Bodzar
You mean something like this? Provide the best development platform possible. Provide full source access to developers and users, including the ability to look at CVS tree changes directly. Users can even look at our source tree and changes directly on the web! Integrate good code from any

Re: [osol-discuss] community driven distro...

2010-05-23 Thread Tomas Bodzar
IPS repositories are simply death because of speed and crazy lack of applications because of stupid IP and patent issues which doesn't help anything. They just cause slow or no development at all. And Oracle/Sun must be in line with them. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] still newbie, help with 2010.03

2010-05-23 Thread jay krik
thanks and you're right did not answer the question. Currently have 3 partitions. during install OSOL partition had to be named solaris 2. It installed itself there. With Mathias help, corrected boot loop problem permanently. My problem now is, OSOL will NOT recognize or mount the other two

Re: [osol-discuss] community driven distro...

2010-05-23 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
IPS repositories are simply death because of speed and crazy lack of applications because of stupid IP and patent issues which doesn't help anything. They just cause slow or no development at all. And Oracle/Sun must be in line with them. If you want Ubuntu with a Solaris kernel, use

[osol-discuss] AST/ksh93/busybox standard conformance and interface stability... / was: Re: community driven distro...

2010-05-23 Thread Roland Mainz
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Richard L. Hamilton rlha...@smart.net wrote: [snip] My impression is that a number of the AST tools have picked up the major options previously unique to the GNU tools, while trying to retain better standards compliance.  Assuming that to be true, I think