LibreOffice on Solaris 11

  • Posted on: 27 December 2017
  • By: tomww

LibreOffice on Solaris 11 is available now from the build repository/IPS-publisher "localhosts11". Solaris 11.3 Users can set the publisher according to "Quicklinks" from the menu on the top right. Solaris 11.2 Users with no SRU installed have to upgrade to 11.3 (you want this!) or wait a moment until packages with relaxed requirements are uploaded. Please comment and spread the work! (klick on read more)

Presence at BSD NOW Assembly at #34C3 in Leipzig Germany

  • Posted on: 26 December 2017
  • By: tomww

Meet users and developers from the SFE packaging project at the 34C3 Chaos Communication Congress (Dec 27 - Dev 30). SFE brings Ansible, LibreOffice, VLC, Postgres and many more packages to Solaris, OpenIndiana and OmniOS.
We share the assembly desk of the friends from BSD NOW community! With a little bit of luck, you can meet OpenZFS, Illumos, OpenIndianda and OmniOS users and maybe developers there!

Click on "read more" below.

Blog Website is now HTTPS Enabled

  • Posted on: 25 December 2017
  • By: tomww

Happy Xmas!

The blog website is now HTTPS enabled. There has been a small config setting missing before and the certificate was expired.
If you want to login securely, there is already the submit form set to "https" when you hit the login button.

But you may wish to manually change the URL to https://sfe.opencsw.org, so your browsers with saved passwords dare to put then into the login form for you.

In case you experience any problems with the blog site now, then please drop me a note on sfepackages at g mail dot com!

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Popular Packages From SFE

  • Posted on: 17 November 2017
  • By: tomww

I've been a bit suprised what packages are popular. That people like LibeOffice is easly understood. But today I realized that "unbound" DNS is very popular too!

From Sep 7th to Nov 17th I can count 93 manifest downloads for "service/network/dns/unbound" by "pkg". A rough estimate can be that all those are unique installs.

Thank you for using SFE!

If you can talk on your channels please do so (IRC, blog, mail, collegues, IT friends, ...)!

Regards,
Thomas

The Workbench 2017-02

  • Posted on: 17 February 2017
  • By: tomww

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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Solaris 11 SRU14 and Firefox 45 - Video Play Back With Ffmpeg

  • Posted on: 15 December 2016
  • By: tomww
YoutTube HTML5 Testpage showing all video formats okay

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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The Workbench 2016-11

  • Posted on: 13 November 2016
  • By: tomww

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.

The Workbench 2016-07

  • Posted on: 6 August 2016
  • By: tomww

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!

Repository Sync Reparied

  • Posted on: 14 July 2016
  • By: tomww

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.

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IPS Package Repository on sfe.opencsw.org

  • Posted on: 13 July 2016
  • By: tomww

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!)

Software for Oracle Solaris 11 (TM)

  • Posted on: 13 July 2016
  • By: tomww

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!

The Workbench 2016-06

  • Posted on: 23 June 2016
  • By: tomww

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?

Foswiki and Perl Modules available

  • Posted on: 9 June 2016
  • By: tomww

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.

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