[ug-bosug] Plea: Can anyone please help me/ lend me a box for KDE4/Solaris builds?
Manish Chakravarty
manishchaks at gmail.com
Sun Mar 16 01:46:07 PDT 2008
Hi Mr. Sivasubramanian,
Availability of _good_ broadband ( 1 Mbps + unlimited bandwidth ) is big
problem in our country.
That is one of the major bottlenecks for projects like these.
I thank you for your offer, again.
If you are interested in building KDE4/Solaris at your end, please do visit
http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/KDE_on_Solaris
I try and keep that page as updated as possible.
Thanks again,
Manish
-----Original Message-----
From: Sivasubramanian Muthusamy [mailto:isolatedn at gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 1:43 PM
To: manishchaks at gmail.com
Cc: ug-bosug at opensolaris.org
Subject: Re: [ug-bosug] Plea: Can anyone please help me/ lend me a box for
KDE4/Solaris builds?
Dear Manish Chakravarthy,
It is good to know that you have found a machine for your present
requirement. About the use of my machine as a local build server, if
it is data transfer intensive, I have some constraints, I have an
internet connection restricted to 1 GB of data transfer per month,
and under the present plan it is expensive to use the bandwidth
unrestrained.
Thank you
Sivasubramanian M.
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Manish Chakravarty
<manishchaks at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Mr Sivsubramanian,
>
> A big *Thank you* for you generous offer.
>
> I am in the process of getting a _big_ Solaris build box on loan from
Dennis Clarke of Blastwave.org
> I will work on that machine remotely.
> I will build/test/deploy the SVR4 .pkg's generated out of the build
process
> (This is assuming the build process goes through without breaking, which
till date, it has never done ;) )
>
> Can your machine (either one) be used as our local build server here?
> As and when the source tree gets stable, I could fire a build to generate
the .pkg's and download them here?
>
> I know this means a using a lot of your bandwidth.
> To give you an estimate, KDE source checkouts are ~2GB now.
> They need to checked out, .pkg's need to be built and people will
download and test them here.
>
> Are you comfortable with this?
>
> -- Manish
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sivasubramanian Muthusamy [mailto:shiva.madras at gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 8:29 PM
> To: manishchaks at gmail.com; Bangalore OpenSolaris User Group
> Subject: Re: [ug-bosug] Plea: Can anyone please help me/ lend me a box
for KDE4/Solaris builds?
>
> Dear Manish Chakravarthy,
>
> I can share 50 GB in a Firex 2200 with a pretty good opteron
> processor, but I would first need some work done on setting up SSH
> access and containerizing my own data. Something else needs to be done
> on to set up shares which would require half a day of solaris security
> administration on this machine. The downsides are that I am at Erode,
> my bandwidth is 512 KBPS, the machine at the moment is not always on.
>
> Alternately, I can send you a Solaris Desktop which worked fine with
> snv_68, but I am stuck on reinstallation, must be a minor problem. I
> can send you this machine which has 160 GB hdisk space, 1 GB ram, an
> AMD athelon 3600 processor. I can send this to you on loan for three
> months, you can install the most recent build and work on it....
>
>
> Sivasubramanian M.
>
>
>
> On 3/14/08, Manish Chakravarty <manishchaks at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi BOSUG,
> >
> > I am _seriously _ falling short on hardware requirements while trying
to
> > build KDE4 on Solaris
> > I have _one_ machine right now, a sub notebook ( the Acer Aspire 2920)
> >
> > It takes more than half a day to go through the build.
> > Even for incremental builds, turnaround time is way too much! ( min:
half
> > an hour or so )
> >
> > Sun does not have the try-and-buy scheme in India other wise would have
> > gotten myself a Sun Ultra 25/45 for this purpose.
> >
> > (SUNW: if you see this , please start this scheme in India, atleast for
> > BOSUG ppl doing work on Nevada! )
> >
> > Can anyone lend me a decent x86 box to do the buids ( extra boxes they
have
> > lying around etc)
> > I dont need the box shipped here; I just need SSH access.
> >
> > In case you are interested:
> >
> > I need to be able to do the following on the box:
> >
> > 1) Install and patch Sun Studio 12 as and when necessary
> > - Currently it needs to be patched to #124864
> > ` - Nevada comes with Sun Studio Express, which needs to be
removed. Sun
> > Studio 12 09/07 is what is needed for the KDE4 builds
> >
> > 2) my user should be added to the Software Installation profile
> > - That's how KBE (Kommon Build Envrionment) works
> > - SVR4 .pkg's are generated out of the build process.
> > - They install in /opt (see below)
> >
> > 3) KDE4 would install to
> > - /opt/foss - dependencises
> > - /opt/qt4 - the Qt4 library
> > - /opt/kde4 - actual KDE4 libs and binaries.
> >
> > Thus my user should be able to write to these dirs
> >
> > 4) The actual build process can run in my home dir, so that is not a
> > problem.
> >
> > 5) I would need ~25 gigs of space
> > - Bare minimum is 20 gigs, just to be safe
> > - More space would be better.
> >
> > 6) I dont know which X86 CPU you have. Faster CPU's are always better
:)
> >
> > ---
> >
> > I am prepared to install SunStudio etc on the system myself if you
would
> > prefer that.
> > I guess all that I said should be possible inside a zone.( I am not a
> > Solaris guru)
> >
> > Whatever suits you (zone/bare metal) is fine with me.
> > Look forward to your comments
> >
> >
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