[oi-dev] OI 'hipster' reboot effort

[Branden Harper]

Along those lines: there was some discussion about discontinuing 32 bit
support in OI.   Is this project planning to move to 64 bit only?
On May 17, 2013 10:12 PM, "Colin Ellis" <panamayacht at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Andrej,
>
> is there a bug tracker for this branch and a list of required package
> updates somewhere?  I'd like to prioritize my efforts in line with what
> others need.
>
> Also what compilers are used on this new hipster release?
>
>
> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Andrzej Szeszo <aszeszo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All
>>
>> Seeing that the project is slowing down a bit, I have decided that I
>> will try to help it get some momentum back.
>>
>> Firstly, if you rely on stable OI releases, Jon Tibble will carry on
>> producing traditional releases and they will be made available in the
>> /dev repo and as installable ISO/USB images. OI 151a8 should be out
>> real soon now.
>>
>> /dev releases follow traditional Sun/Oracle releng process, which is
>> very time consuming. Mainly for that reason it may take a very long
>> time before any build system update will be reflected in the package
>> repository.
>>
>> OI 'hipster' is trying to change the process by switching to a rolling
>> release model.
>>
>> There is single top-level build repo on Github:
>> https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland. If you want to change
>> something or add new packages - simply send a pull request.
>>
>> Changes to the build repo are automatically picked up by Jenkins
>> instance, packages are built and then published to the
>> http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster repo. It is all set up and working
>> now.
>>
>> http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster repo currently consists of /dev
>> contents + JT's /dev-test OI 151a8 bits + Milan Jurik's JDS work +
>> Jenkins built packages.
>>
>> The plan is to improve what's out there incrementally. Eventually it
>> should be possible to build complete OS from the Github repo.
>>
>> To use /hipster repo, install OI 151a7 and run (as root):
>>
>> pkg set-publisher -O http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster openindiana.org
>> pkg update -v
>>
>> Few people started submitting changes already. Thanks for that! If you
>> have something to be added or changed in the repo, simply send us pull
>> request.
>>
>> Couple useful links:
>> Jenkins dashboard: http://hipster.openindiana.org:8080/
>> Component build logs: http://hipster.openindiana.org/i386/logs/
>>
>> Andrzej
>>
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