[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to add a new package to distibution construction?

[Chris]

On 2021-01-25 16:22, Hung Nguyen Gia via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> Thanks. BTW, do you know how to do this?
> 
> https://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2021-January/023341.html
> 
> The DIY guys seemed never did the same thing but just like to teach other 
> what to do.
> 
> On a booted live usb system of OI.
> 
> The format command doesn't show the usb stick as disk.
> 
> rmformat only does with formatting, but not partitioning: 
> https://illumos.org/man/1/rmformat
> 
> It seemed only fdisk left. I will try if fdisk works or not.
> 
> I hate this kind of DIY answers very much.
> 
> Better give me the details, which commands to use, which man pages to look 
> at...
> 
> I always give them very detailed information but they can only give these 
> sh8t.
I *dearly* wish gpart(8) (FreeBSD) was available to OI (has grow && shrink). 
Once I
get my graphics card output sorted. I'm going to see about converting it to 
OI.
Till then (given a GUI) you could probably use gpartd to accomplish your 
task(s).

HTH

--Chris
> 
> ---- On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 19:38:37 +0700 Aurélien Larcher
> <aurelien.larcher at gmail.com> wrote ----
> 
>  >
>  >
>  > On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 1:56 AM Hung Nguyen Gia via openindiana-discuss
> <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
>  > So no one know how to do it?
>  >
>  > You should add the package FMRI in the distribution constructor manifest 
> like I
> should in the thread about nano.
>  > Add it to one of the manifests included in slim_cd.
>  > However sunpro is not available anymore from our repo for legal reasons, 
> it was
> obsoleted some weeks ago.
>  >
>  > Also I just remembered that you ask why we do not have cc,c++,cxx etc.. 
> in
> /usr/bin... I forgot to reply...
>  > A lot of software assumes that if /usr/bin/cc is found then it is 
> Sunstudio and
> sets it as default without checking that it is actually another compiler 
> e.g. GCC.
>  > We had to refrain from providing the symlinks in /usr/bin to work around 
> such
> ill-defined behaviour...
>  >
>  >
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>  >
>  > ---- On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 23:11:17 +0700 Hung Nguyen Gia via 
> openindiana-discuss
> <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote ----
>  >
>  >   > e.g: I wanted to add the sunpro package into slim_cd_x86.xml
>  >   >
>  >   > How could I do it?
>  >   >
>  >   > I found this xml doesn't contain any list of packages to be used at 
> all.
>  >   >
>  >   > Please help. Thanks.
>  >   >
>  >
>  >
>  > --
>  > ---
>  > Praise the Caffeine embeddings
>  >
> 
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