Big day for OpenSolaris community
It's a great day for OpenSolaris community - the pending and contrib repos are available and it's now pretty easy to contribute packages into a central repository with low barrier to entry. It was possible to contribute before by creating your IPS repository but a central community repo was something that was really missing because it was hard for people to find all the different useful repos. The contribution process is described on this page. I am expecting that the community will create many useful packages and make OpenSolaris stronger. Let the fun begin!
indeed a big day. looking forward for things to come there. :)
K.
Posted by Kristian on December 12, 2008 at 10:48 AM GMT #
Oh I hope someone creates a package for Inkscape. I've had the hardest time trying to compile this app for OpenSolaris.
Posted by Mauricio Lopez on December 12, 2008 at 06:20 PM GMT #
How do I install a package from the contrib repos?
Posted by W. Wayne Liauh on December 13, 2008 at 07:08 AM GMT #
I hope, that inkscape will be available for opensolaris! I'll wait for it!
Posted by Alexandre Mayorov on December 14, 2008 at 10:02 PM GMT #
Inkscape isn't that big a deal; if you use gcc + recent Gtk+ as a base you should be done in a day or so. I did a port to Studio 12 a while back which required rebuilding the entire C++ stack in GNOME as well as fixing all the gcc-isms there and in Inkscape .. this got me to the point that the whole thing would compile, and then crash on some bizzarre behind-your-back manipulation of a const list of const references -- funkiness in any case. Suffice to say I never released that port, although the patches are in the JDS team's hands.
Posted by Adriaan de Groot on December 15, 2008 at 08:03 PM GMT #
Wayne, to install a package from the contrib repo, you first need to add its URL to OpenSolaris:
pfexec pkg set-authority -O http://pkg.opensolaris.org/contrib contrib
You can then install packages just like any other.
Hope that helps,
Brian
Posted by Brian Leonard on February 03, 2009 at 07:49 PM GMT #
i am late aware from solaris.please help what are features available in feature?
Posted by shankar on May 13, 2009 at 05:16 AM GMT #