[oi-dev] 2018.10 targets

Tue Oct 2 17:25:10 UTC 2018

On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 7:03 PM Michal Nowak <mnowak at startmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

I am not sure I still have that work from last year... I am not really
motivated in reinventing the wheel unless it is necessary... :S

>
> 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
> >      >
> >      >
> >      >
> >      > _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing
> list
> >      > oi-dev at openindiana.org <mailto:oi-dev at openindiana.org>
> >      > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
> >      >
> >
> >     _______________________________________________
> >     oi-dev mailing list
> >     oi-dev at openindiana.org <mailto:oi-dev at openindiana.org>
> >     https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > ---
> > Praise the Caffeine embeddings
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > oi-dev mailing list
> > oi-dev at openindiana.org
> > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
> >
>
> _______________________________________________
> oi-dev mailing list
> oi-dev at openindiana.org
> https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev

-- 
---
Praise the Caffeine embeddings
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://openindiana.org/pipermail/oi-dev/attachments/20181002/606fcf2c/attachment-0005.html>