[indiana-discuss] Blastwave Repository?

[Dennis Clarke]

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Alan Coopersmith
<Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
> Dennis Clarke wrote:
>  > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Andras Barna <andras.barna at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >> http://blastwave.network.com:10000/
>  >
>  > Keep in mind that there are 1,800 software packages in SVR4 format and
>  > you can install them just fine. Or at least you should be able to
>  > install them just fine if the ABI still holds true.
>
>  2008.05 is not completely binary compatible with Solaris releases.
>  For instance, any of those packages that link against Motif libraries
>  won't work until we get Motif libraries released for 2008.05.
>  (Unlike the DP1 & DP2 releases, I think I've now fixed all the known
>   X11 library ABI issues, but those were really incompatible with
>   existing Solaris X apps at first.)

These sort of issues were foreseen. Blastwave has a GAR system in
place now with hundreds of software packages in the svn repo  ( see
http://svn.blastwave.org/trac/browser/csw/trunk ) then once the
OpenSolaris based build servers are in place it should become much
more easy to trigger a rebuild and kick out packages that are pure
OpenSolaris born and bred. Unless of course major source tweaks are
required.

Things like this, a postremove script, need to be addressed of course :
http://svn.blastwave.org/trac/browser/csw/trunk/server/apache2/files/CSWap2prefork.postremove

Works fine with Solaris 10 ... won't fly in the IPS world.

So .. there is work to do and I think ( wild guess ) that we have a
little over 600 packages in the GAR system now.

Dennis