[OpenIndiana-discuss] oi0148 illumos integration status??

[Guido Berhoerster]

* Ken Gunderson <kgunders at teamcool.net> [2011-03-15 13:34]:
> 
> On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 11:52 +0100, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
> > * Ken Gunderson <kgunders at teamcool.net> [2011-03-15 01:53]:
> > > I'm confused about whether what's being served up at:
> > > 
> > > <http://openindiana.org/download/>
> > > 
> > > is now Illumos based or still on ON??
> > 
> > That is still oi_148 based on the last available Oracle ONNV.
> > 
> > > I caught that the 148a build was rekindled as 148 so as not to fubar up
> > > pkg-repo version numbers, and then subsequently at pkg repo 
> > > 
> > > <http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev-il/en/index.shtml>
> > > 
> > > But if I want to point someone to dl Illumos based 148 what is the
> > > correct URL?
> > 
> > The /dev-il repo is basically the above oi_148 with Oracle ONNV
> > replaced by Illumos. It is an experimental build and not intended
> > for general use, please keep that in mind when pointing people to
> > it.
> > 
> > > Basically the post here:
> > > 
> > > <http://openindiana.org/pipermail/oi-dev/2011-March/000273.html>
> > > 
> > > and the terse "I'll move it" response has left me confused and some
> > > clarification would be appreciated.
> > 
> > What is called "oi_148a" was a livecd image constructed from the
> > packages which are in the above /dev-il repo. It was distributed
> > as technology preview cd at SCALE and not intended for general
> > use, thus it should not have been placed on dlc.openindiana.org.
> > Since a number of fixes which went into the oi_148 image were
> > accidentally left out of the oi_148a image there are a number of
> > known bugs.
> 
> This was spun from what was once labeled oi-dev-148a-x86-20110223-1.iso,
> or something with further fixes?

Yes, I believe that was the SCALE LiveCD.

> > Our next steps will likely be another respin of oi_148a for
> > internal usage where perl-584 is being replaced by perl-510.
> 
> Plus the fixes that were accidentally left out of "oi-148a"?

Yes.

> > After ironing out any potential problems we will deliver a new
> > public development release based on a snapshot of Illumos ON and
> > b151a for the other consolidations. When this development build
> > has proven sufficiently stable and major bugs have been dealt
> > with we plan to make this our first stable release.
> 
> That will be a happy day for many :)  Are there any general timeline
> estimates?  

Not yet, much depends on how much time our volunteer contributors
are able to devote to working on OI. Right now all relevant
consolidations have already been built against perl-510, next
step is to construct the actual respin.

-- 
Guido Berhoerster