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

[Jim Klimov]

So... based on this suggestion, the hipster illumos-gate makefile, and some earlier list posts, I came up with this change to my illumos.sh script:

# To enable upgrades over `pkg info osnet-incorporation | grep Branch:`
#   Branch: 0.151.1
#export ONNV_BUILDNUM=152
#export ONNV_BUILDNUM=151.1.100
# http://openindiana.org/pipermail/userland-team/2013-August/000261.html
# http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.openindiana.devel/2906
export PKGVERS_BRANCH=3014.0.4.24
export BRANCHID=3014.0.4.24

Some 47 minutes later I've got an incrementally-rebuilt repository which cheerfully includes packages like
 
SUNWcs 0.5.11-3014.0.4.24:20140424T130517Z

 
However, a "pkg -R /a update" still insists on downloading new hipster patches with the 0.5.11-2014.0.1.14459:20140423T191935Z versions from the internet, rather than quickly installing the newer and higher-versioned local equivalents. This happens also if I use "-g" to specify a repo explicitly, and when I use a file-based repo instead of its http service.
 
I guess nowadays IPS tries to update same-named packages using the same repo they were installed from specifically to avoid conflicts like these? How should I go about overriding that reasonable failsafe mechanism? ;)
 
Thanks,
//Jim

----- Исходное сообщение -----
От: Alexander Pyhalov <alp at rsu.ru>
Дата: Thursday, April 24, 2014 13:39
Тема: Re: [oi-dev] Hipster and custom illumos-gate
Кому (To): OpenIndiana Developer mailing list <oi-dev at openindiana.org>
Копия (Cc): Jim Klimov <jim at cos.ru>, Discussion list for OpenIndiana <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>

> 
> 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
 
 
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