[OpenIndiana-discuss] About moving to hipster

[Harry Putnam]

"Nikola M." <minikola at gmail.com> writes:

> On 10/13/14 05:42 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Can any of you tell me how one navigates the pkgs.  In my install
>> there seems to be no pkg manager.
>>
>> I'm familiar with the pkg cmdline but digging out specific stuff
>> without the name is a bit primitive. And time consuming.
>
> Hi Harry,
> GUI packagemanager and update manager were removed from upstream
> Oracle codebase and need maintaining to be included back.
> Hipster pulled upstream changes and lost GUI tools this year, without
> actions on fixing issue or getting to maintain it. (and it was broken
> in Hipster from Hipster's day1, anyway)
> Someone (aurelien larcher) posted it on Github:
>
> https://github.com/alarcher/packagemanager
>
>> It is just a repository with EOLed files but at least it is somewhere.
>
> So it could be first thing to do , Getting back Packagemanager and
> update manager back to working state.
> But maybe even better then that, it would be better
> to make connection between tested /dev releases and Hipster - in a way
> you exactly needed,
> and that is updating from /dev with a chance of using new /dev in the
> future in line with existing ones.
>
> Getting back update manager and Package manager is required for new
> /dev anyway.
> See if you can include yourself on oi-dev mailing list.

Thanks for all the helpful information you've been posting.

I want to step off into helping in some low level way to get oi and
hipster up to speed.

Trying to work that in to something I need done ... turns out to be
sendmail. 

Unless I've really missed some important things (which is not at all
unlikely) It seems I am not able to get a working sendmail setup
going.

I suspect pilot error, but it actually appears that something may be
wrong with the way sendmail.cf gets generated.

I will need to put the rest into a different post but please try to
explain once more how I should go about this.

Currently I've download the latest sendmail sources and compiled
them. I haven't installed as yet.

So lets say I want to bring the sendmail oi/hip uses more up to date.

If I just build and install and start using it... I've only made my
own oi/hip install un-updateable... what to do?

It may be best to wait until I post about what I think may be a
sendmail pkg bug and get some help in determining if it is really a
bug.

Please watch for post... Subject: Sendmail is the pkg buggy?