[oi-dev] 2018.10 targets

[Michal Nowak]

On 09/29/18 09:01 AM, Michal Nowak 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, ...).

(3) is now resolved in my mate_1.20 branch. It's also updated to the 
latest MATE 1.20 code stream. The missing piece is chopping the huge PR 
to pieces our builder can actually consume.

> 
> I don't think I am able to do anything about those.
> 
>>
>> 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.

I run a test build on Sunday and with some fixes and tweaking our openQA 
tests are ready: 
https://openqa.oi.mnowak.cz/tests/overview?distri=openindiana&version=hipster&build=20181006&groupid=1.

This time around I am not scheduling VirtualBox jobs as keeping them 
alive was too much pain.

Michal

> 
> Also I had some progress with Meson but can't promise this.
> 
> 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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