[oi-dev] some Newbie questions

[Andreas Wacknitz]

Am 27.12.21 um 21:19 schrieb Friedrich Kink via oi-dev:
> Hi all,
Hi Friedrich,

welcome to OpenIndiana. I am happy that you will provide help for some
interesting areas where we miss specialists.
>
> reading silently for a couple of years this mailing list I decided now
> to contribute to the community my extensions I made over the years to
> my system (at least I'd like to try ;-)). The main purpose of my
> system is to act as mail server supporting all modern security
> features like DANE, SPF, DKIM, DMARC etc (which works btw for couple
> of years already, basically I started with opensolaris). That's why
> I'll focus on those packages. Of course I've some questions after
> starting this endeavor. Especially when trying to build Spamassassin
> which requires a lot of additional Perl modules. While start building
> these modules it turned out that the provided 64bit Perl version 5.24
> is pretty outdated. So I built the current stable version 5.34 based
> on the existing 5.24 setup. Worked like a charm ;-). Now first
> question: Is there a reason/dependency for not upgrading to a newer
> version? Next question:  Some Perl modules have odd version like 1.04
> which makes publishing a package impossible because of the padding
> zero in the number after the dot. What is the reason for bailing out
> on a padding zero (just a
I recommend to clone our main repository: OpenIndiana/oi-userland
(https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland). Within this you'll find a
folder named "doc" that contains important information, eg.
reserved_uids_and_gids.md, which may answer your question regarding user
and group ids (hint: the file needs an update if you add something).
Start reading on our documentation server, eg. "Building with
oi-userland" (https://docs.openindiana.org/dev/userland/).

Regarding odd version numbers like 1.04 in your example. Alas we are
restricted to what FMRI gave us and the version numbers are just a part
of the package's FMRI. While we are stuck on this there are some helping
definitions possible, eg. by additionally use IPS_COMPONENT_VERSION
(this is the one that ends in the FMRI and is automatically set by
COMPONENT_VERSION if not explicitly set to another value) and
HUMAN_VERSION, which can additionally be used to add the "real" version
information for a package. See for an example what actual
components/sysutils/sudo does to provide the HUMAN_VERSION (hint: you'll
need to have a definition in the Makefile and also a reference in the
manifest). It is always a good idea to look for existing solutions for a
problem you encounter. Typically it has already been solved by other
packages.

> question for me and my understanding ;-))? Also, some packages will
> require a new user and/or group. Are uids/gids managed centrally or
> can I just choose some numbers <100 not used to my best knowledge? How
> to store test results (I haven't found the trick where the results get
> stored in the test directory while comparing existing packages with
> mine). And finally when I think I'm ready to release my package would
> this list be the place to ask for integration?
>
> thanks a lot for all the work already,
>
>   Fritz
Regards,
Andreas