[oi-dev] oi_148 is pending

[Hernan Saltiel]

On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Albert Lee <trisk at opensolaris.org> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>

Hi, Albert!


>
> I've spent a large part of the past two days reworking and documenting
> our release packaging environment and fixing issues with our metadata
> and external packages that are being imported into this release, and I
> feel we have a sustainable environment for release management now.
> I've gotten a tentatively complete set of oi_148 packages created
> with an entire redistributable cluster this time and imported the
> SVR4-based consolidations we don't yet have replacements for, instead
> of including opensolaris.org packages in our incorporations. If this
> went as planned, our users should no longer need an opensolaris.org
> publisher configured.
>
> I've built a full redistributable cluster (as well as a slim_install
> metapackage) instead of the weird mini cluster we had for 147. The
> packages are sitting in /net/infra01/releng/oi/oi_148/repo which still
> needs to be imported into a clone of the 147 repository. Hopefully we
> can get some testing done over the weekend.
>

I'm very interested in the process you followed in order to get this as a
result. Is there any chance to have access to the documentation you
followed?
I'm working in having a server only release, I have several packages
compiled, but I'm having hard times creating the distro.
Any help will be very appreciated!


>
> Some additional things I want to do before the release:
> - Make sure I haven't made any typos in the metadata, like last time :)
> - Create a text_install cluster for the Text Installer (its current
> use of an explicit package list is quite embarrassing).
> - Get QA done against the bugs we have on file
> - Build and test both live media and AI images
> - Start looking at the logistics for the illumos repository. One
> option is to ship an older build of illumos we have around, but we
> need to integrate the supporting changes for snmpdx and Perl 5.8.4
> removal as soon as possible.
>

Best regards,

HeCSa.




>
> -Albert
>
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HeCSa
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