This page collects notes and links about 32-bit vs 64-bit architecture topics. Solaris 64-bit Developer's Guide Are 64-bit Binaries Really Slower than 32-bit Binaries? OpenCSW 32/64 Bit build…
As many projects these days are written for systems with glibc, they may not always build cleanly on Solaris. While it may be possible #ifdef around the problem to include alternate headers or use…
The CSWalternatives package is currently under developtment. Please stay tuned on the project-alternatives page for up-to-date information. The goal of this package is to ease the selection of…
When there is a dispute between maintainers on how things should be done any one of them can call the board for arbitration. The goal of the arbitration process is to force the participants to write…
Pains with the current process: Released packages are sometimes still in testing/ (fixed by Dago) The whole process includes too many manual steps, which could be automated Mixed usage of testing/…
Update 2009-01-09. Today I released BIND 9.6.0-P1 with SMF support via CSWcswclassutils. It's also split into several packages to reduce download size for you who don't need all that is provided…
The following people are applying for the election of the board in july 2010 for the positions of president, treasurer and secretary. Please outline what you intend to do when you are elected and why…
My name is Peter Bonivart, I live in Sweden and work for a large American IT company. I maintain MailScanner, Perl and pkgutil (which I'm also the author of). Look here for a complete listing:…
This is a plugin for SpamAssassin that attempts to detect mail bots that send spam and malware. It does so by looking at headers and testing DNS lookups for classic signs of bots. You need to do some…
This is a draft document describing the proposed deployment of an automatic build system at OpenCSW. The issue is being discussed on the maintainers mailing list. buildbot on the buildfarm Background…
Usage The servers on the OpenCSW build farm are to be used exclusively for building packages for the OpenCSW project. Details to the buildfarms can be found at…
→ go to buildfarm
Here you can add you own info about anything related to the build process. You can also link to more official info. Official OpenCSW build standards Official GAR documentation Using git to produce…
- Strategy Example implementation(s) CSWbar works in the global zone CSWbar works in full non-global zones CSWbar works in sparse non-global zones CSWbar with shared NFS No modification to cswinitsmf…
This page describes the catalog format. common version package file md5 size dependencies category Example: bind 9.4.2,REV=2008.07.09_rev=p1 CSWbind…
Usage About checkpkg is a tool used to run a number of tests against a srv4 format, potentially gzipped, package file. It only analyzes the files contained within the package file. It's related to…
Objective The goal of this topic is to setup and improve OpenCSW project communication and its visibility from the outside. This topic will cover a range of actions including : improve the web site…
Configuration files have been historically kept in /opt/csw/etc. There is consensus to migrate to a new location, /etc/opt/csw, for most configuration files, particularly ones that need to be machine…
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Incentive for cswclassutils There are several common tasks which need to be done by packages on installation and deinstallation. Examples of such common tasks are preserve existing configuration…
