[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana SFE repository: Call for testers

[Ian Johnson]

2011/7/30 Alex Viskovatoff <viskovatoff at imap.cc>

> Hello everyone,
>
> We plan to provide an add on IPS repository for OpenIndiana with a
> selection of packages from the spec-files-extra (SFE) project
> (http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net/spec-files-extra/).  SFE has been
> providing build recipes in the form of spec files for
> OpenSolaris/Solaris Express/OpenIndiana for a long time but is
> not affiliated with the OpenIndiana project.  Support for these
> packages will only be provided on a best-effort basis and lies at
> the discretion of the respective package maintainer from the SFE
> project.
>
> Right now we need your help with testing preliminary packages
> which are available in a temporary IPS repository at
> http://staticdev.uk.openindiana.org:10003/en/catalog.shtml;
> see http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/SFE+IPS+Repository for instructions
> on how to use it. Be aware that these packages are mostly untested, so
> they might not work and may even damage your system.  This repo is also
> intended *for testing only* and might go away as soon as our testing
> phase has ended and a new repository intended for general use has been
> set up on pkg.openindiana.org.  Please report any bugs you find on the
> official OI SFE bugtracker at
> https://www.illumos.org/projects/oi-sfe/issues and only there, since
> these packages are not maintained by the OpenIndiana project itself, and
> SFE project bugs reported to the OI bugtracker will consequently be
> ignored.
>
> If you would like to get involved in helping us to build and publish
> packages on the OpenIndiana side, feel free to reply here.  If you would
> like to get involved upstream with the SFE project and work on packages
> there, please see
>
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/pkgbuild/index.php?title=Submit_SFE_new_packages
> for instructions.
>
> Package highlights of this first build include:
>
> mplayer2 2.0.99
> mpd 0.16.2
> ffmpeg 0.8
> lame 3.98.4
> tmux 1.4
> ngnix 0.8.53
> Dovecot 2.0.13
> Postfix 2.8.1
> Postgres 9.0.4
> gcc 4.6
> LLVM/Clang 3.0 (development snapshot)
> Qt 4.7.3
> git 1.7.5
> cmake 2.8.4
> boost 1.46.1
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Alex Viskovatoff
> N.B. Prashanth
> Guido Berhoerster
>
>
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I have been building some SFE packages for myself and can help build for
this repository if needed. I'm using it for my own desktop system as well,
so I'll be sure to report any issues with the packages. So far everything is
working well.

Ian Johnson