[oi-dev] Patching illumos sources and mirroring sources

[Nikola M]

On 07/28/15 12:36 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote:
> We now have Perl 5.22 as our main Perl version. During Perl 5.22 
> integration
> some old packages, including Apache 1.3, MySQL 5.1 and Perl 5.10, were 
> removed.
>
> We deliver all perl 5.22 modules which were delivered for Perl 5.16 
> earlier. Almost all perl 5.16 modules and Perl 5.16 are kept (the only 
> removed module is graphviz perl module, which had conflicts with Perl 
> 5.22 module).

Illumos source needs patching after downloading, related to Perl update 
(and others in the future)
so it does not affect illumos build on OI and prevent people changing 
distribution, because they are not able to build it by default.
http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182179/2015/07/sort/time/page/15/entry/16:377/20150730233009:6F36E180-3734-11E5-B06C-F4BBA9DDBECD/

Therefore  keeping and maintaining mirror of illumos source code with OI 
patches, like any other distro.
Also shipping broken stuff that does not work should not be done.

It also pull some other questions, would pulling from external sources 
every time one wants to build, with or without checking hashes is a good 
practice.
Every distro needs to deliver not only it's patches and ways of making 
packages, but having source code itself available on request to users, 
to fulfill licencing requrements.

>
> Removal of Apache 1.3 means that you can't longer build old 
> illumos-gate versions. Luckily, illumos-gate builds nicely with Apache 
> 2.2 since February.
>
> We suggest you to use either percona-server or mariadb instead of mysql.
>
> Removal of Perl 5.10 is more important. It was a relict inherited from 
> OI /dev and still is used in OI /dev to build illumos-gate. This means 
> that to build illumos-gate
> 1) you should have runtime/perl-522/module/sun-solaris and 
> library/perl-5/xml-parser-522 installed (they will be installed 
> automatically on pkg update),
> 2) you should set
> export PERL_VERSION="5.22"
> export PERL_PKGVERS="-522"
>
> in your illumos.sh.
>