[OpenIndiana-discuss] FreeIPMI

[Jim Klimov]

Hi all, 

A project I collaborate on makes use of freeipmi. It was initially guessed that since OI has one, it would be an easy platform to cover. But attempts to build that software have shown that in fact our freeipmi is (based on?) 0.7.7 and lacks some of the needed routines in its libraries. Current releases are 1.4.11 / 1.5.1, so we're prehistoric ancient ;)

I did not find it in userland and just casually glanced at the illumos-gate so can only guess it is in the latter, and may have been expanded for sunbmc etc. - or maybe just a verbatim clone of upstream project (did not have time to dig beyond the phone/gitweb yet).

If this were a userland component, i'd just bump it. If it is ON core, there's more work for re-porting and RTIing a new baseline version.

Kowalski, options? ;)

I see a few ways to proceed:
* hitch a ride on the back of someone who did this in the past - perhaps some other distro in their fork of illumos-gate? For the project in my question, freeipmi-1.0.1 should suffice.
* eject it from OS/Net (if it is there in the first place) and have every distro publish it as part of their userland
* ship a private build with this project and have a way to avoid conflicts with the OS version, especially if this build ends up to become a common userland package (static lib of new freeipmi, bolted into the built binary program, sounds to be most simple approach here).

Any brighter ideas?

Thanks, Jim
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