[OpenIndiana-discuss] Building a SPARC distro of OI?

[Alexander Pyhalov]

Hello, Gary.

You have two ways:
1) use older build systems and build dev a9 - 
https://hg.openindiana.org/sustaining/oi_151a/
2) use oi-userland to build hipster - 
https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/

I don't have much experience with the former, but with later you'll have 
to tune and test packages as
new components were never checked on SPARC.
If you'll end up with some specific SPARC changes to oi-userland, we can 
integrate them, but
generally without build bot which would build all supported components 
on SPARC, we'll
eventually end up breaking SPARC again.

I'd choose some subset of packages which one can be interested in - 
e.g., compilers, shells, some server software
and work just on those, perhaps even added components.sparc file for 
tested components
similar to components.ignore which we have for x86 builds.

Gary Mills писал 20.10.2015 18:49:
> I've just installed teferi's ISO of oi_151a8 for SPARC on my T2000
> (sun4v).  It worked flawlessly.  I've also built illumos-gate, only a
> few days old, on this system.
> 
> What do I need to do to create an ISO and package repository for a
> more recent version of OI?  Are there instructions someplace?  Who can
> host the SPARC ISO and repository?


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