SFE - Software Packages for Solaris, OpenIndiana and OmniOS

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!

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

Update to Postgresql 9.6.3

Dovecot with clucene server side search

Samba 4.6 with Active Directory provisioning fix

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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