[oi-dev] error in pkg5 - from oi-prestable

[Lou Picciano]

Magnus, 

Yes, indeed, a pre-configured, ready-to-go build zone was part of my original hope for the Oi-build world. Perhaps naïve on my part, but with all the power of zone cloning/exporting/snapping - this always seemed to me a natural confluence. It does seem that, with recent renewed energy and activity around the process, we may actually be approximating that goal. 

Would be very helpful to a wider range of people, who - like me(?) - are really not too good with this build stuff; well, at least, it started out feeling quite 'foreign'. Lowering the barrier to entry = A Good Thing. 

Lou Picciano 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Magnus" <magnus at yonderway.com> 
To: "OpenIndiana Developer mailing list" <oi-dev at openindiana.org> 
Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 10:35:15 AM 
Subject: Re: [oi-dev] error in pkg5 - from oi-prestable 


On Feb 11, 2012, at 9:19 AM, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: 
> 
> I quite liked the idea of having a single repo to check out to be able to build the whole OS - makes it much easier for people to get involved with OS development. But pkg is more specific to OpenIndiana than it is to Illumian, so perhaps OI and Illumian need separate repos for where we deviate? 

I've been playing some with SmartOS and there are some developments over there that could make it trivial for people to come in with a "correct" dev zone. Between vmadm and dsadm (http://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Getting+Started+with+SmartOS#GettingStartedwithSmartOS-CreatingZones), if we had something like that, it ought to be pretty easy to give someone a short shell command to run to fetch a specific published oi-dev zone template (which is versioned), and provision a branded zone from that template. Moreover, it would be brilliant to run "dsadm avail" on a SmartOS box and see some OI branded zones available (and Illumian… and Nexenta… etc). That sort of cross-pollination could help the whole Illumos ecosystem. 

-M 


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