Re: [osol-discuss] slight RFE for beadm

2008-08-03 Thread Shawn Walker
to destroy opensolaris-3? This action cannot be undone (y/[n]): y Please file bug reports or enhancement requests at http://defect.opensolaris.org Thanks! -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] no verbose option for /usr/bin/pkg refresh

2008-08-14 Thread Shawn Walker
://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=1406 Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] how to find the source code for command /usr/sbin/df

2008-08-14 Thread Shawn Walker
wan_jm wrote: I want to find the source code for /usr/sbin/df , but I don't know to search, use which key word and what project is it in? could you please help me? thanks. http://src.opensolaris.org/source/search?q=defs=refs=path=dfhist=project=%2Fonnv -- Shawn Walker

Re: [osol-discuss] bash line wrapping

2008-08-15 Thread Shawn Walker
of the command line is corrupted and you can't actually see what was typed before. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] bash line wrapping

2008-08-15 Thread Shawn Walker
Brent Jones wrote: On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Matt Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: Matt Harrison wrote: I connect to my SXCE box regularly over ssh and I've got a bash line wrapping problem that is driving me mad

Re: [osol-discuss] SXDE

2008-08-20 Thread Shawn Walker
anyway... -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] diskless client

2008-09-08 Thread Shawn Walker
this question... The short answer is No; you can't use that guide for OpenSolaris 2008.05. You might be able to use it for SXCE builds, but I wouldn't expect that to hold true in the coming months. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] diskless client

2008-09-08 Thread Shawn Walker
Christian Kaiser wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: Christian Kaiser wrote: Christian Kaiser wrote: Hi all, I want to setup a diskless OpenSolaris client. Chapter 7 of the Solaris System Administration Guide (Basic Administation) explains how a client can be installed with the help of PXE

Re: [osol-discuss] diskless client

2008-09-08 Thread Shawn Walker
Shawn Walker wrote: Christian Kaiser wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: Christian Kaiser wrote: Christian Kaiser wrote: Hi all, I want to setup a diskless OpenSolaris client. Chapter 7 of the Solaris System Administration Guide (Basic Administation) explains how a client can be installed

Re: [osol-discuss] Townhall meeting

2008-09-09 Thread Shawn Walker
a few things that need to happen, but I'd say we're on the road to victory. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] Townhall meeting

2008-09-09 Thread Shawn Walker
approval as onerous. Those were the least of my worries in my own experience. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] unix file encryption

2008-10-04 Thread Shawn Walker
install SUNWgcc SUNWhea, etc.? It's better to install the gcc-dev package as it will install all of the basic headers and other items you need along with gcc. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Minmal install CD?

2008-10-13 Thread Shawn Walker
and finding out how you can help make this a reality. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE b100 release date?

2008-10-20 Thread Shawn Walker
... -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] image-update hung?

2008-10-20 Thread Shawn Walker
along with 17% of the swap. Is there a problem here? How much memory do you have in your system and what build are you upgrading from? -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] image-update hung?

2008-10-20 Thread Shawn Walker
% of the memory is in use along with 17% of the swap. Is there a problem here? How much memory do you have in your system and what build are you upgrading from? -- Shawn Walker Shawn: I have 512 M of RAM and am upgrading from 5.11-0.0 That could certainly explain it. However, when I asked

Re: [osol-discuss] The future of the IPS system

2008-10-22 Thread Shawn Walker
at the older end are much better than apt for selection and frequency of updates? -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] The future of the IPS system

2008-10-22 Thread Shawn Walker
our primary goals and the resources spent developing are better spent on improving the primary user experience. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] [OT] was Re: The future of the IPS system

2008-10-23 Thread Shawn Walker
. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE b100 release date?

2008-10-23 Thread Shawn Walker
. As Belenix and Nexenta (and others) have proven, if time is spent producing great things rather than simply wishing that they occurred, success can be achieved. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE b100 release date?

2008-10-23 Thread Shawn Walker
Moinak Ghosh wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Stephen Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/23/08 8:06 AM, Shawn Walker wrote: What some of the corporate sponsors for the community choose to do with their products and trademarks is their rightful decision and community members should

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE b100 release date?

2008-10-23 Thread Shawn Walker
Stephen Lau wrote: On 10/23/08 8:06 AM, Shawn Walker wrote: What some of the corporate sponsors for the community choose to do with their products and trademarks is their rightful decision and community members should not expect to have control over them. Very true... however I don't

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE b100 release date?

2008-10-23 Thread Shawn Walker
Stephen Lau wrote: On 10/23/08 8:58 AM, Shawn Walker wrote: Thomas Maier-Komor wrote: Shawn Walker schrieb: I'm pretty sure that one-line update would be, it hasn't been released because it's not ready yet. :-) And what about a schedule? Something like 'We hope to have

Re: [osol-discuss] Best place for installation of add-on apps

2008-11-17 Thread Shawn Walker
or filesystem is for storing add-on software to the system. If this is unpackaged software, that's where I'd put it. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Best place for installation of add-on apps

2008-11-17 Thread Shawn Walker
Paweł Tęcza wrote: Shawn Walker pisze: Paweł Tęcza wrote: Hello People, I've googled a lot and I'm confused, because I still don't know what the best place for installation of add-on apps under OpenSolaris is. For example, I want to compile and install some free software/open source

Re: [osol-discuss] Using NWAM to connect to secured wifi networks

2008-11-26 Thread Shawn Walker
the second value is the BSSID/IBSSID. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Using NWAM to connect to secured wifi networks

2008-11-26 Thread Shawn Walker
Roman Strobl wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: Have you tried connecting from the command line first using dladm, and then adding the network to /etc/nwam/known_wifi_nets ? The line in known_wifi_nets should look like: networkff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff ...where the second value is the BSSID/IBSSID

Re: [osol-discuss] pkg.opensolaris.org is down

2008-12-05 Thread Shawn Walker
to upgrade to the latest build? http://ipkg.sfbay/release/ Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] pkg.opensolaris.org is down

2008-12-05 Thread Shawn Walker
Shawn Walker wrote: Bill Shannon wrote: Is there another site, perhaps an internal Sun site, that I can use to upgrade to the latest build? http://ipkg.sfbay/release/ Actually, *latest builds* would be: http://ipkg.sfbay/dev/ Cheers, -- Shawn Walker

Re: [osol-discuss] upgrade from 101a to 101b?

2008-12-05 Thread Shawn Walker
that was fixed was this one: $ BUILD=`uname -v | sed -e s/snv_// -e s/[a-z]//` ...note the change to strip a-z from the build number. However, Stephen's right, you shouldn't need to do this any more. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] SUNWgnome-im-client breaks beadm

2008-12-09 Thread Shawn Walker
update each of those bugs with a comment about which build of OpenSolaris you are running and the output of pkg version; that would be very helpful. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [on-discuss] New community based development list

2008-12-09 Thread Shawn Walker
why you think you can't do all of that using opensolaris.org, but good luck. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [on-discuss] New community based development list

2008-12-09 Thread Shawn Walker
C. Bergström wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: C. Bergström wrote: If have no idea why you think you can't do all of that using opensolaris.org, but good luck. I emailed about having the ml created here and was told I needed to start a project. I read the instructions at [1] and in all

Re: [osol-discuss] [on-discuss] New community based development list

2008-12-09 Thread Shawn Walker
on opensolaris.org with the right CG sponsorship. In fact, it's something I'd wanted to do for a long time but simply don't have the time to do so. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [on-discuss] New community based development list

2008-12-09 Thread Shawn Walker
C. Bergström wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: * Review: The primary constraint in the past for contributions was people to review and commit contributions. As you might have noticed, the ON gate moved to mercurial not long ago, and community members outside of Sun should have commit access soon

Re: [osol-discuss] Porting and Package Creation Question

2008-12-11 Thread Shawn Walker
to getting involved in creating more packages, and making OpenSolaris a more viable alternative to other OS's. The folks on the sw-porters-discuss list should be able to help you better. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] SRP target project

2008-12-18 Thread Shawn Walker
was. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] A stupid bug reporting question

2009-01-08 Thread Shawn Walker
a clue? You can't, at the moment. If you need to add more information, you can either email the requesting engineer firstname.lastname AT sun.com or you can email someone here and they can add it for you. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

2009-01-14 Thread Shawn Walker
solarg wrote: hello all, i'm surprised that gnu chmod is installed, what are the advantages comparing to solaris chmod? It's very annoying when using ACLs. Familiarity; put /usr/bin first in your path if you'd prefer to use /usr/bin/chmod instead of /usr/gnu/bin/chmod. -- Shawn Walker

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

2009-01-14 Thread Shawn Walker
using. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

2009-01-14 Thread Shawn Walker
being used quite extensively. Also, one thing to mention, GNU chmod and ls won't have any problems with UFS ACLs, only ZFS ACLs. Semantics, but yes, basically. But as for OpenSolaris 2008.x, I suspect there are far more single user machines as you put it then multi-user machines. -- Shawn

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

2009-01-16 Thread Shawn Walker
install SUNWtcsh isn't sufficient. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] New packages added to the /pending repository

2009-01-27 Thread Shawn Walker
package. Use and redistribution subject to license terms as described in the documents included in the sources. That really isn't going to work long-term. * Many packages don't have a summary. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

Re: [osol-discuss] Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (VDPAU) [PSARC/2009/059 FastTrack timeout 02/05/2009]

2009-01-29 Thread Shawn Walker
have ffmpeg or mplayer though. I would hope that the fluendo folks can make the necessary changes to their codecs to take advantage of this; paired with their upcoming dvd player, we might finally have a first-class DVD playback experience on OpenSolaris. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker

Re: [osol-discuss] Phoronix Linux vs OpenSolaris benchmark

2009-02-16 Thread Shawn Walker
and is continuing to change with the OpenSolaris 200x releases? -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Phoronix Linux vs OpenSolaris benchmark

2009-02-16 Thread Shawn Walker
, but... its potentially better than SXCE, but nowhere near as atomic as BFU... You're confusing shortcomings in the build and upgrade process with a perceived lack of change when it comes to download size. Those download sizes will be significantly reduced in the future. Cheers, -- Shawn

Re: [osol-discuss] 107 in Vbox graphics issues

2009-02-20 Thread Shawn Walker
or OS107??? worked fine in 106... Are you running VirtualBox 2.1.2? If so, upgrade to 2.1.4. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Basic questions about pkg

2009-02-28 Thread Shawn Walker
(to me) how to add a new addon authority. See set-authority in man pkg. I mean in a configuration... not from command line. I did see the Again, there is no documented interface for doing this other than through the command line or the GUI. -- Shawn Walker

Re: [osol-discuss] dmesg?

2009-03-04 Thread Shawn Walker
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: Hi Is there a tool like linux dmesg for opensolaris? See man dmesg /usr/bin/dmesg Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Updating 11/2008 to build 108 with Package Manager

2009-03-09 Thread Shawn Walker
, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Updating 11/2008 to build 108 with Package Manager

2009-03-09 Thread Shawn Walker
James Mansion wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: There are a set of rules about what characters are allowed in the name. Spaces are one of the characters that are not allowed. I seem to remember being bitten by that too, albeit briefly. I seem to remember cursing the lack of clarity of diagnostic

Re: [osol-discuss] Blastwave pkgutil

2009-03-11 Thread Shawn Walker
/pkgutil -install stellarium ^ There's your problem. '-install' should be '-i' or '--install'. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] vim doesn't source ~/.vimrc

2009-03-11 Thread Shawn Walker
, and it's not a symlink. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Full Root? - I think Not

2009-03-12 Thread Shawn Walker
, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] vim doesn't source ~/.vimrc

2009-03-12 Thread Shawn Walker
maybe there's a syntax error in the file or something causing vim to ignore its contents? What makes you believe it's being ignored? -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] vim doesn't source ~/.vimrc

2009-03-12 Thread Shawn Walker
Harry Putnam wrote: Shawn Walker swal...@opensolaris.org writes: It looks like it's opening it just fine. So maybe there's a syntax error in the file or something causing vim to ignore its contents? What makes you believe it's being ignored? You'd think it might be but if so then :so

Re: [osol-discuss] liveCD login and password

2009-03-15 Thread Shawn Walker
Ché Kristo wrote: When it comes to usability its sometimes good to think...what would Apple do? I suspect Apple wouldn't let you login or do anything that doesn't have a shiny button it, so login information wouldn't even be necessary (it's a joke folks, laugh) Cheers, -- Shawn Walker

Re: [osol-discuss] Free CD

2009-03-16 Thread Shawn Walker
that the opensolaris sparc live cd cannot be booted from for installation. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Free CD

2009-03-16 Thread Shawn Walker
Thomas Maier-Komor wrote: are you aware of the fact that OpenSolaris is currently x86 only? SPARC support seems to be planned for later this year, but is not there yet. No longer true: http://blogs.sun.com/dminer/entry/opensolaris_build_106_now_with Cheers, -- Shawn Walker

Re: [osol-discuss] Free CD

2009-03-17 Thread Shawn Walker
OpenSolaris 2008.x or 2009.x. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Error in pkg install

2009-03-20 Thread Shawn Walker
the command again using pfexec or otherwise increase your permissions. Did you try running the command again using pfexec as indicated in the error message? pfexec pkg install IPSmc -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Error in pkg install

2009-03-20 Thread Shawn Walker
Spoorthy Shankarmurthy wrote: I tried pfexec pkg install IPSmc also ... Then also it gives the same kind of error. The same kind of error? Can you please provide the exact output you receive when you type pfexec pkg install IPSmc ? -- Shawn Walker

Re: [osol-discuss] Error in pkg install

2009-03-20 Thread Shawn Walker
not the same kind of error :) What's the output of pkg authority ? -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] vim doesn't source ~/.vimrc

2009-03-20 Thread Shawn Walker
. Move this: Switch syntax highlighting on, when the terminal has colors Also switch on highlighting the last used search pattern. if t_Co 2 || has(gui_running) syntax on endif ...to the very bottom of your vimrc, and it will work (it did for me). Cheers, -- Shawn Walker

Re: [osol-discuss] [on-discuss] Emergency project to rescue Opensolaris fr

2009-03-24 Thread Shawn Walker
Express release there is as well. That's why a public rsync service for mirroring is provided. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris-based CD/DVD Distributions as of March 26, 2009

2009-03-26 Thread Shawn Walker
I see that make comments about all the packages we have :) -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris-based CD/DVD Distributions as of March 26, 2009

2009-03-26 Thread Shawn Walker
server to query and obtain package information such as this. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Performance issues

2009-03-30 Thread Shawn Walker
you. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Laptops was Re: Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-03-31 Thread Shawn Walker
://www.infoworld.com/article/05/06/30/HNsparclaptop_1.html And during all the years before, they could have used non-re-branded Tapdole Laptops, an then also Nature Tech ones for a couple of years. Ahem: http://www.opensolaris.com/toshibanotebook/index.html -- Shawn Walker

Re: [osol-discuss] Offline install of IPS packages (not a joke)

2009-04-01 Thread Shawn Walker
to file bugs at http://defect.opensolaris.org or discuss them on pkg-discuss. I believe you'll find the build 111a version of pkg (or the one currently in the gate) to be significantly faster than the build 109 and prior versions. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Laptops was Re: Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-01 Thread Shawn Walker
bugzilla 7785 So basically all the same problems I have with my Sony Vaio and OpenSolaris :) None of those (except for the SSD bug possibly) would prevent me from using the laptop. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] IPS Performance was Re: Offline install of IPS packages (not a joke)

2009-04-01 Thread Shawn Walker
[moving to pkg-discuss] C. wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: As for inconsistencies in the manifest, that's pretty vague. Care to discuss the specifics on pkg-discuss? Look at the manifest.. You'll see that that some target= are trying to create a symlink against a file which isn't there. (I

Re: [osol-discuss] Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-04 Thread Shawn Walker
because they don't agree with the design or implementation? I can tell you with certainty that Sun works hard to ensure contributions go upstream, it's ultimately less work for them and less code to maintain. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-05 Thread Shawn Walker
C. wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: C. wrote: Do you know how many patches Sun maintains for packages that are never accepted by upstream because they don't agree with the design or implementation? I can tell you with certainty that Sun works hard to ensure contributions go upstream, it's

[osol-discuss] Packaging Systems was Re: Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-05 Thread Shawn Walker
C. wrote: 5) a secure package manager without any arbitrary post/pre-install scripts Ok.. so wait a second.. Let's first of all define secure because last I checked the IPS authorities aren't signed.. Are they? You're only They are not currently, but this is definitely planned

Re: [osol-discuss] Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-05 Thread Shawn Walker
Moinak Ghosh wrote: On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Lurie y...@gmx.co.uk wrote: ... The user side experience of IPS is no doubt very good but is no different from a good Linux package manager like Smart/Yum (with the exception of ZFS features). From a developer point of view these

Re: [osol-discuss] Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-05 Thread Shawn Walker
Martin Bochnig wrote: many other benefits. And you don't need to employ 50 engineers for 2 years to get a written-from-scratch monster like IPS going. I'm not sure where you got this number from, but I think it's about 10x greater than the reality :-) I'm sure the pkg(5) team would love to

Re: [osol-discuss] Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-05 Thread Shawn Walker
casper@sun.com wrote: DTrace ZFS SMF FMA BootAr IPS IA-Install Incompatible? N N N N N Y Y I think the many people screaming about quota support when it debuted a few years ago, among many other decisions would beg to

Re: [osol-discuss] Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-06 Thread Shawn Walker
Alexander Vlasov wrote: Lurie wrote: Yes.. writing an entire package manager from the ground up is *less* work than maintaining the patches. This is called moving forward, IPS is based on new novel ideas, a secure package manager without any arbitrary post/pre-install scripts, That's why

[osol-discuss] Packaging was Re: Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-06 Thread Shawn Walker
Moinak Ghosh wrote: On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Shawn Walker swal...@opensolaris.org wrote: Alexander Vlasov wrote: Lurie wrote: That's why lots of packages deliver their own SMF service which runs only once. ...which is better because those SMF scripts: * can run at boot, which fits

[osol-discuss] pkg(5) was Re: Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-06 Thread Shawn Walker
Moinak Ghosh wrote: On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Lurie y...@gmx.co.uk wrote: So modern Linux package managers do not have any of these qualities ? Some of them ? Of course. All of them ? No. Just a few points: 1. They usually upgrade a live system (and while it's possible for some to do a

Re: [osol-discuss] Packaging was Re: Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-06 Thread Shawn Walker
Moinak Ghosh wrote: On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Shawn Walker swal...@opensolaris.org wrote: Moinak Ghosh wrote: Which means those packages will require system reboot not unlike Windoze! First, how else can you ensure the scripts correctly run without having the new environment loaded

Re: [osol-discuss] uname -a ... 32bit vs 64bit

2009-04-06 Thread Shawn Walker
Edward Ned Harvey wrote: When I run uname -a it says: SunOS hostname 5.10 Generic_137138-09 i86pc i386 i86pc In the past, I've seen the system say x86_64 when you're 64bit. And I've also seen it say 32bit when you're 32bit. But now it says nothing, so I'm left confused. How can I know if

[osol-discuss] pkg(5) Search was Re: Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-06 Thread Shawn Walker
Alexander Vlasov wrote: That's really strange. Have you read /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README? currently pkg has very rudimentary search ability, like you can't ask `which packages were installed only to satifsy other packages' dependencies', `show me all games' or `which packages has arrived

Re: [osol-discuss] Packaging was Re: Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-06 Thread Shawn Walker
Sebastien Roy wrote: I was under the impression that an IPS package manifest contained the set of services to be automatically imported and started as part of package installation, or temporarily disabled during package upgrade, etc. Where does one get the idea that a reboot is required for a

Re: [osol-discuss] pkg(5) was Re: Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-06 Thread Shawn Walker
Moinak Ghosh wrote: end ?. Do the benefits really outweigh the costs ? Even today the codebase is significantly large and complex. We simply have to agree to disagree here. Some things you'll never know unless you try; that's the cost of innovation. We will indeed have to agree to

Re: [osol-discuss] pkg(5) was Re: Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-06 Thread Shawn Walker
Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote: beadm is not hard to use even outside pkg(5), i've used it in the past to for example have an alternate BE that is xen able I never said it was hard to use, but obviously having a single command to upgrade your entire system instead of a sequence of them is less

Re: [osol-discuss] pkg(5) Search was Re: Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-07 Thread Shawn Walker
, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] network autocomfiguration daemon question

2009-04-09 Thread Shawn Walker
an ip of 0.0.0.0 without a cable plugged in, I plug an Ethernet cable and it remains at 0.0.0.0. I've tried switching between auto and wired networks without success. I know how to configure things manually, but I would prefer to do it automatically. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker

Re: [osol-discuss] network autocomfiguration daemon question

2009-04-09 Thread Shawn Walker
to configure things manually, but I would prefer to do it automatically. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Updating snv_98

2009-04-12 Thread Shawn Walker
from snv_86 to snv_92, the zpool won't boot up? The issue you speak of was a result of changes in the underlying boot management libraries / grub and not of the pkg system. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Duplicative Documents Entries in Nautilus

2009-04-13 Thread Shawn Walker
constructive. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Duplicative Documents Entries in Nautilus

2009-04-14 Thread Shawn Walker
. Quite frankly, your condescending tone and various, continued wild assumptions whenever something doesn't work the way you want are unhelpful. I would encourage you to find better usage of your time. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

Re: [osol-discuss] Apps of Steel Challenge!

2009-04-15 Thread Shawn Walker
something zfs-centred myself... Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] compile pidgin - configure successfully, make with no luck

2009-04-17 Thread Shawn Walker
-client Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Packaging was Re: Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-17 Thread Shawn Walker
a specific package; already filed as RFE 2713) Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] migrando a opensolaris 2008.11

2009-04-17 Thread Shawn Walker
. (realmente un anticuario). Mi idea es utilizarla, como conejillo de indias e instalarle el Open Solaris, para cuando compre otra más moderna. ¿Se podrá hacer la instalación? Su computadora no tiene bastante memoria. La computadora necesita por lo menos el mb 512. Apesadumbrado. -- Shawn Walker

Re: [osol-discuss] migrando a opensolaris 2008.11

2009-04-17 Thread Shawn Walker
, instale VirtualBox, y después instale OpenSolaris dentro de él: http://www.virtualbox.org/ Lea más sobre OpenSolaris aquí: http://es.opensolaris.org/ -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] migrando a opensolaris 2008.11

2009-04-18 Thread Shawn Walker
virtuales que había instalado, con sus respectivos errores. ¿Cómo se podrá corregir esto? http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=87892tstart=0 -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] gvim?

2009-04-20 Thread Shawn Walker
-0.111 Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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