[OpenIndiana-discuss] Heads up - rpm5 + smart package manager on Belenix

[Sriram Narayanan]

All:

I wanted to give everyone a heads up on Belenix related activities.

Context:
We'd decided some time ago to use rpm5 + the smart package manager.
Please see: http://www.belenix.org/content/Proposal-use-rpm5-package-format-and-smart-package-manager

All of my work is tested on only my laptop so far, albeit in a number
of clean boot environments.

-- Ram


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sriram Narayanan <sriram at belenix.org>
Date: Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: An initial cut of the Belenix Roadmap for a four to six
week duration.
To: Belenix Developers <belenix-dev at opensolaris.org>, Belenix Discuss
<belenix-discuss at opensolaris.org>


Here's the install log

sriram at ram-oi:~$ sudo pkg install rpm5
              Packages to install:     1
          Create boot environment:    No
DOWNLOAD                                  PKGS       FILES    XFER (MB)
Completed                                  1/1       67/67      1.5/1.5

PHASE                                        ACTIONS
Install Phase                                  78/78

PHASE                                          ITEMS
Package State Update Phase                       1/1
Image State Update Phase                         2/2

sriram at ram-oi:~$ rpm --version
rpm (RPM) 5.3.11

sriram at ram-oi:~$ rpmbuild --version
rpmbuild (RPM) 5.3.11


-- Sriram

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Sriram Narayanan <sriram at belenix.org> wrote:
> I wanted to give a status on this work:
>
> Completed:
> - tar.bz2 files for rpm5, smart and createrepo.
> - an IPS repo containing rpm5.
>
> These are on my computer, and I've tested these on clean boot
> environments and everything works well.
> I've tested a build of nginx across boot environments, and all's well
> on that front.
>
> What's next:
> - rpm dev tools - I intend to have a look at what Fedora publishes,
> and see which of these we should take.
> - Publish an IPS repo at ips.belenix.org to contain rpm5
> - Publish an RPM repo at belenix.org to contain smart and createrepo
>
> For the belenix.org work, I'll need access from Moinak/Angad. I expect
> that the tar.bz2 files would get uploaded only by Tuesday night India
> time.
>
> I also tried to build smartos, but am facing some errors. I think that
> providing rpm5 + smart on SmartOS would be useful to have, and could
> become the foundation of "Belenix - Data Centre Edition" (or something
> like that).
>
> -- Sriram
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Sriram Narayanan <sriram at belenix.org> wrote:
>> Hi everyone:
>>
>> A colleague at work is interested in contributing to Belenix and asked
>> me about the roadmap. I'd taken a decision to not give this thought
>> until I had a working rpm tarball, but his question makde me think and
>> jot down my thoughts on a  four to six week roadmap for Belenix.
>>
>> Please review.
>>
>> =====================================================================================
>> rpm5 PoC - completed
>> smart GUI PoC - completed
>> Smart Command Line - Testing/Fixes needed - uninstall complains about
>> config being in "read-only" mode
>> rpm5 tarball - work in progress
>> smart tarball
>>
>> IPS Repository
>> - Publish RPM
>> - Publish Smart
>>
>> RPM Repository
>> - Publish RPM
>> - Publish Smart
>> - Publish RPM Dev Tools
>>
>> Getting Started Wiki
>>
>> Fedora RPM Development Guide
>> - Port to Belenix
>>
>> Illumos latest
>> - TarBall
>> - RPM
>> - IPS
>> - Zones Howto
>>
>> Getting Started
>> - wiki
>> - access
>> - Coming from Linux/Windows 7
>> - Multiboot/grub
>> - Packaging Howto
>> -- Getting started with rpm5 on Belenix
>> --- Installing rpm + smart (IPS/tarball)
>> --- Setting up your build env (rpmdev tools + samples)
>> - Repository Management
>> - Package Signing
>>
>> -- Sriram
>> Belenix: www.belenix.org
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Belenix: www.belenix.org
>



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