[oi-dev] OI 'hipster' reboot effort

[Paolo Marcheschi]

Hi
Thank you for this Hipster repo.

For me the upgrade was a complete success.

Now I have a lot of past issue resolved and the new illumos installed.
Thank you again.

Paolo
On 05/18/13 03:14 AM, Andrzej Szeszo 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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