[oi-dev] 2018.10 targets

[Michal Nowak]

On 09/29/18 06:19 PM, Aurélien Larcher wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 9:01 AM Michal Nowak <mnowak at startmail.com 
> <mailto:mnowak at startmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 09/28/18 10:41 AM, Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev wrote:
>      > Hi, folks.
>      >
>      > We are approaching October. While I have limited time now, I want to
>      > coordinate priorities and targets, what should we do till end of
>      > October (and due to personal reasons, I'd better announce snapshot
>      > till 20 October or earlier or allow someone else to do this).
>      >
>      > We have several regressions and problems, which would be good to
>      > fix.
>      >
>      > 1) Virtualbox failure after FPU changes
>      > https://www.illumos.org/issues/9761 ,
>      > https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/17947 is a serious one, but I'm
>      > afraid I lack skills to fix it in reasonable time. The stack trace
>      > itself doesn't seem related to illumos-gate changes, but likely it
>      > is. In KVM Joyent fixed this using new hma_fpu_* API, but Virtualbox
>      > structures to store VM registers differ and from brief overlook it
>      > has several asm functions to store/restore Host/Base registers state.
>      > So far I don't have an idea how convert one to another. So, this
>      > likely will be broken in 2018.10 unless someone skillful dig into
>      > this.
>      >
>      > 2) sbcl issues - threaded sbcl can not be built after KPTI changes,
>      > it fails FLOCK and posix tests. Needs investigation. It's a serious
>      > issue, because threaded sbcl is needed to build pgloader.
>      >
>      > 3) Our Mate is a bit old, but newer Mate requires updated GTK3 .
>      > Updated GTK3 IIRC has dropped support for theme engines, and so our
>      > Nimbus theme based on unico engine doesn't work. Also I've heard
>      > there were issues with new mate-terminal. Michal, do you have some
>      > comments here?
> 
>     I run MATE 1.20 as seen in the PR and it works fine but:
> 
>     (1) Nimbus theme. I stick to "Traditional" theme.
> 
>     (2) Pluma text editor's text area blinks annoyingly. Might be an
>     Intel-only issue. Upstream issue reported.
> 
>     (3) MATE Terminal requires new vte library which does not work for us.
>       From my investigation I noticed that some #ifdef __sun were removed
>     from newer vte. Also I haven't seen new vte for non-Linux OS (pkgsrc,
>     BSDs, ...).
> 
>     I don't think I am able to do anything about those.
> 
> 
> Which version does pkgsrc deliver? J. Perkin seems to have worked on 
> MATE 1.20.

Thanks for pointing that out, Aurélien! Indeed Jonathan ported it to 
__sun: https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/tree/trunk/x11/vte3. I'll have a 
look at it.

> 
> 
>      >
>      > 4) As for new features, I really want to see KVM zones, perhaps, I'll
>      > dig into this shortly.
>      >
>      > Does somebody have another targets/comments?
> 
>     I will work on openQA tests for them to be in shape for the snapshot
>     and
>     test the images once test-snapshot is available.
> 
>     Also I had some progress with Meson but can't promise this.
> 
> 
> I packaged Meson last year but this is a mess...
> Need to implement the specificities of illumos systems all over again... 
> and the way it is structures looks like the usual entangled "if(totoOS) 
> {} else if (babarOS) else if (fooOS) {} etc...." all over the place.
> First thing back then was to notice that GCC => GNU ld in their rules...

I didn't get even that far, but it's noticeable from OS/HW detection 
that Meson has Linux in mind.

Michal

> 
> 
>     Michal
> 
>      >
>      > Please, avoid turning this topic in bike-shedding, I want to hear OI
>      > developers in a way "I ll take item #N" or "I expect to finish
>      > feature A before snapshot", not "please, also fix this and that".
>      >
>      > Best regards, Alexander Pyhalov, system administrator of Southern
>      > Federal University IT department
>      >
>      >
>      >
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