[oi-dev] 2018.10 targets

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 9:01 AM Michal Nowak <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.


>
> >
> > 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...


>
> 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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