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On 05/ 4/14 01:29 PM, Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński wrote:<br>
<span style="white-space: pre;">> Our community site counts
visits. Questions about IPS and Solaris 11<br>
> have are visited more often, by about 1 order of magnitude.<br>
><br>
> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/~maciej/ips-questions.png">http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/~maciej/ips-questions.png</a><br>
><br>
> We're an open source project, so the sole reason why we don't
have an<br>
> IPS repository is that nobody did it yet. From my
conversation with<br>
> Dago about it, there are 2 things that need to be done:<br>
><br>
> 1. IPS backend for GAR<br>
> 2. build environment - somebody has to administer it<br>
><br>
> I also know that some of our maintainers effectively got
inactive<br>
> because they mainly need / build IPS packages, and we don't
have a<br>
> framework to do that.<br>
><br>
> Each time we talk about IPS, we look a bit like this:<br>
>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://i1276.photobucket.com/albums/y462/staffpicks/Animated_GIFs/startrek-1.gif">http://i1276.photobucket.com/albums/y462/staffpicks/Animated_GIFs/startrek-1.gif</a><br>
><br>
> Maybe we should get something going, something quick and
dirty? It<br>
> might be something like running "mgar merge" and then a
completely<br>
> different command to build the package? That would be
completely fine<br>
> for now.<br>
><br>
> If the resulting IPS catalog would be in someone's home dir,
that<br>
> would be fine too. When it's done we can move it to a common
place.<br>
><br>
> If packages were built on somebody's VM, that would be fine
too.<br>
><br>
> Does anybody here manage Solaris 11 hosts?<br>
><br>
> Maciej<br>
></span><br>
Yes, I'm pretty much only doing S11 and IPS for the past 2-3 years.<br>
<br>
Publishing is currently done via the built in S11 pkgbuild tool, but
mgar could easily outstrip pkgbuild's lacking features.<br>
<br>
I can manage an S11 host's pkg/server SMF service(s), and do a
continuous brain dump on everything I've learned.<br>
<br>
Thankfully, there's finally documentation for the IPS packaging
concepts that have been missing for quite some time:<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26502_01/html/E21383/index.html">http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26502_01/html/E21383/index.html</a> <br>
<br>
<br>
Stripping out the features in mgar that are native to IPS is
probably important, to avoid duplication of effort.<br>
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