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20090108 Thursday January 08, 2009

command-not-found for OpenSolaris?

Ubuntu has a cool feature where they publish an index of all the binaries on the system, and the package that each one belongs to.  When you combine this with the bash command-not-found hook, you get a default environment that responds to a missing command by telling you what package to download.  (Sorry, too lazy for screenshots...)

Anyway, this feature would be a good use for the new pkg command.  You could write a script that creates an index of all binaries, and then store that index in the user's home directory.  Another script could react to the command-not-found hook in bask and tell the user something useful.

In fact, you could almost do this interactively by querying the pkg database, except that when I query 'dbx' (for example), I get 37 hits.  Most are for the different versions of the right package, and a few are for a package-alias of some kind.  A script that got that answer would need to apply some clever hueristics to do the right thing.

It seems like a good afternoon project, but I haven't had a spare afternoon in quite a while. The pkg-discuss@opensolaris.org alias can offer help with pkg issues.

Any takers?


Posted by Chris Quenelle ( Jan 08 2009, 03:09:58 PM PST ) - Permalink - -

20080820 Wednesday August 20, 2008

Goodbye Solaris 9 (for Sun Studio)


We're making the internal transition to building Sun Studio on Solaris 10 (instead of Solaris 9). This is a big deal because the product bits immediately become useless on any Solaris 9 system. There's a new libm.so.2 library that became available on Solaris 10, and if you depend on it, you can't run on Solaris 9. It's a challenge making sure our vast ocean of loosely maintained lab machines is ready for the change. The good news is we get to use newer, faster hardware. :-)

I'll make this post short because I'm using ScribeFire for the first time in forever, and I don't trust it. I can't believe blogging is still this hard. :-(

Posted by Chris Quenelle ( Aug 20 2008, 06:15:17 PM PDT ) - Permalink - -

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mug shot Chris Quenelle is a tools developer at Sun Microsystems. He's worked on performance and debugging tools at Sun for more than 10 years. He reads comic books and science fiction, and has more tivos than he can keep track of.

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