[OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Hipster and custom illumos-gate

[Alexander Pyhalov]

Hi, Jim.

On 04/24/2014 02:45, Jim Klimov wrote:
>    After completing a build I am suddenly stuck trying to install
> the newer illumos-gate packages into a new BE: their versioning
> (0.151.1.100 per my arbitrarily big choice) is less than Hipster's
> (2014.*, without even a leading zero which is auto-prepended to the
> values I provide in illumos.sh)... Should I have to somehow enforce
> larger 2014.* version numbers, or is there a way (onu?) to override
> existing packages and force installation of their "namesakes" from
> the on-nightly repository regardless of the version numbers?
I think you should set PKGVERS_BRANCH to something greater than 
2014.0.N.N (e.g. 2014.1.0.0).

>
>    Also, leaping a bit ahead: would/should KVM work in Hipster out
> of the box, including the case when Hipster itself is virtualized
> by a hypervisor, or would I need to compile some other patches
> into my illumos-gate? Specifically, I am interested in software
> emulation for the VM anyway (ARM Linux via QEMU)?.. And also, did
> anyone try (and succeed) to set up cross-compilation of Linux ARM
> programs running the process under illumos/OI/Hipster, whether in
> native illumos zones or in lx-branded ones, or should I look forward
> to necessarily running a Linux VM as well for that task?
>

I tested the following patch from David: 
http://www.ulx.cc/assets/source/104_interdiff.diff
It worked for me, but if I understand correctly it's just a restoration 
of Sun lx/lx26 work.  I think you could easily use 
components/illumos/illumos-gate component from oi-userland, but you have 
to apply necessary patches by hand. I'm going to add  patching support 
(I mean usual oi-userland prep mechanism) for this component in near 
future. If you are going to use illumos-gate component, you'd better to 
bump BRANCHID so that your packages would be preferred.

-- 
Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Computer Center of Southern Federal University