[OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Salt Project maintenance and future

[Joseph Holsten]

FYI, I’m annoying folks at the OpenZFS dev summit about this in case 
there’s overlap.

Salt is probably the only mainstream config management tool I don’t 
use regularly, so I can’t justify volunteering.

On 27 Oct 2025, at 14:46, Marcel Telka wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The Salt, or Salt Project <https://saltproject.io> , also known as
> SaltStack is packaged for OpenIndiana as system/management/salt.  It 
> is
> currently at version 3007.1.
>
> This version was released by upstream in May 2024.  The latest 
> upstream
> version of Salt is 3007.8 released in September 2025.
>
> In 2023-2024 I updated Salt few times in our repo, but since I do not
> use it (and I never used it) I've no idea if it works or not.  Also, I
> do not know if it is used by somebody at all.
>
> The project itself does have several problems that make its 
> maintenance
> hard, for example:
>
> - salt's testsuite fails early so it is unclear if the package works 
> at
>   all at OpenIndiana
> - with almost every new upstream release the project brings several 
> new
>   dependencies that we need to package as well to make the salt
>   installable
> - some of these dependencies lacks illumos/Solaris support
> - salt relies on some very old python modules that does not work
>   properly with new Pythons
>
> Because of that I think we do have only two options:
>
> - somebody steps in to maintain our Salt package, or
> - we obsolete and remove Salt from OpenIndiana:
> https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/pull/24480
>
> If you are using Salt at OpenIndiana and/or want to maintain it, 
> please
> let me know ASAP.
>
>
> Thank you.
>
> -- 
> +-------------------------------------------+
> | Marcel Telka   e-mail:   marcel at telka.sk  |
> |                homepage: http://telka.sk/ |
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