SFE - Software Packages for Solaris, OpenIndiana and OmniOS

Fosdem is over - met the developers and users

The first user contributed blog article on installing LibreOffice is here! Yipee!

LibreOffice 5.2 for Hipster - new packages

SSHFS is very cool - new packages

MPlayer 1.3.0 needs downgrade to 1.2.1 to work with ffmpeg 2.8.10

Upgraded IPMI for the build KVM server - what a mess

Preparation work for enabling https for the blog - what a mess

Cleaning up old changes from my workspace

Current issues with packages

What is next

Whats in the near future

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Recently released SRU14 for Solaris 11 gets us Firefox version 45.4!

You can install ffmpeg/libavcodec.so and watch video / mp4 and more formats in Firefox 45.4.
Or you could listen to soundcloud ...

Sidenote: OpenIndiana Hipster are lucky too, they have Firefox 45.4 since a few months.

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Update 20161123: you can now play video in Firefox 45 if ffmpeg is installed! read here: http://sfe.opencsw.org/newsflash_solaris_11_sru14_firefox_45_video_playb...

User's wish list for binary packages in the repositories.

News From The Workbench 2016-11

LibreOffice4 and LibreOffice5 (new)

Our maintainer Pjama sent in new spec files for LibreOffice 5.1 and 5.2. This is absolutely wonderful!
Today I started to do a test-build on OpenIndiana Hipster 2016.10-like system to see first, if the LibreOffice4 in version 4.4.7.2 can be built in a reproducible way. Finetuning will happen during the next days.

working on GCC 4.8.5 / 4.9 / 5.4 with new install location /usr/gcc-sfe and compatibility symlinks /usr/gcc/
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temporary repository localhosts12nogccdeps discontinued (replaced by -> localhosts12 with new /usr/gcc-sfe)
LibreOffice5 is waiting for being fine tuned for the OSDistros with X11 present

working on GCC 5.4.0 started
working on easy-setup for a build environment started
questions and feedback on what you need next?
Update 20160916 LibreOffice 5 is on the way to my workbench, thanks to pjama
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* Waiting on LibreOffice 5 spec files from down-under
* automatic builds resumed / engineering some script improvements
* easy-setup package for build environment - planning
* webstack - what do you want first?
* could you give feedback please?
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What is currently on my workbench?  (There is a new workbench article 2016-08 available)

(Edit:) In the meanwhile I'll try to get LibreOffice 4 to S12 - the procfs.h compile issue is now solved and I'm fixing small issues as they appear while building on S12. Package compiles, will be uploaded in early version without dictionaries and language files. Once it appears on publisher "localhosts12" you may do first tests.
(Edit2:) LibreOffice 4 works on S12 - thanks to some few lines of code changes from a collegue!

Hi all,

during the last days the repository upload was broken. I had to repair the script after I extended the functionality to get a quicker sync for the shared files stored on the path /file/.

The plan was, to make syncing faster for the 629424 files stored in /file/. Even if you say "rsync" is smart, I believe it should be very much faster is I run a "find" to see filesnames newer then a flagfile (carrying the timtestamp of the previous seccuessful sync).
I've prepared the code and will try it out during the next few days.

In a hurry to get IPS packages? Go to: http://sfe.opencsw.org/quickrepolinks

These IPS Packages are built from RPM style build recipes hosted as a open source repository here http://pkgbuild.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pkgbuild/spec-files-extra/trunk/

In a hurry? Go to: http://sfe.opencsw.org/quickrepolinks

I promise, one day there will be someone volunteering and re-write this article for you.

Update 20150710: The build machine for OI Hipster is running, the setup for the repository follows shortly. Once available, I'll post this on this blog. (Done! It is now online!)

This project compiles RPM spec files into IPS packages for the Oracle Solaris 11 (TM) operating system.
You can find the IPS package repositories here: http://sfe.opencsw.org/quickrepolinks

If you are using OpenIndiana Hipster or OmniOS, then you find separate IPS repositories for those as well.

Volunteers for this website are highly welcome!

Contributing to the build recipes in RPM format is open. A quick start tutorial can be given so you have a greate first time experience!

Some quick notes about what's happening on the SFE side.

LibreOffice5 is on the workbench in Australia.

Foswiki (perl) now has all its required modules in the repository. So CGI-Mode looks working but mod_perl doesn't play well at the moment. Either troubles with Apache rewrite rules loosing the tag "perl-script" or perl 5.12 on S11 is not suitable. Need help from a mod_perl guru. Know one?

Hi all,

the Perl modules required to build up a "foswiki" are now available in the repositories.
For Foxwiki itself, I'll create a package once I managed to get a propper basic configuration that works:
The cgi-mode is already functioning, only the mod_perl mode is a but hairy to debug. The apache22 mod_rewrite rules and the call to bin/view don't play well together in my Test-Setup on Solaris 11.3.

Oracle has news on Licensing Solaris 11 if you are in the Oracle Academy program, you may want to read:
(german) https://blogs.oracle.com/solarium/entry/oracle_solaris_11_frei_f%C3%BCr
(english) https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/entry/oracle_solaris_11_free_to

Hi all,

I've updated the package for wine these days to version 1.9.10

You may find the wine package for your favored OS if you search the repositories here: http://sfe.opencsw.org/quickrepolinks

Something to test would be if directx works. If you have success or a failure and can help to debug this, that would be great.

Try it. You'll be surprised how fast firefox runs inside wine!

To start, run the script "winetricks" and install firefox from the application submenu.

Regards
Thomas

I'm planning to update the fuse modules and libraries very soon. As well ntfs-3g should get an update.

Those modules/libs are used by e.g. ntfs, DAV tool "cadaver" and others like filesystem over ssh (sshfs).
If I can re-enable ext2 (or newer) over fuse will be interesting.

If you want to test the new packages or want to get notified for news, then please drop me a note in the comments or email to: sfepackages at g mail dot com

Regards,
Thomas

From time to time, vistors use the search function for the package repositories.

One or the other package or project name is maybe of interest to others as well.

If you find a package in the list below that is very interesting for you, then please let me know or write right into the comment field of the table why you have good use for such a package.

It can only help to get someone starting to work on it!

Dear readers, here is a draft version of upgrading OpenIndiana Hipster to the lastest version and then add the SFE publisher to install packages. Please read and if you already have access to the blog by username, *edit* this text to make it better. This is highly appreciated! I would prefer to let you improve this text, while I try to improve the packages. Deal?