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SmartOS minutiae preview dataset Jonathan Perkin well-nigh me · rss · twitter · github SmartOS minutiae preview dataset Feb 18, 2013 tags: pkgsrc, smartos The datasets we produce for SmartOS are usually released on a quarterly cadence, matching the upstream pkgsrc release branches. This is often unbearable to ensure that people can get up-to-date software with all the usual improvements and bug fixes. Occasionally though, users want the very latest and don’t really want to wait for 3 months to get it, and so to satisfy those users who require the gory whet I have produced a new dataset which is based upon pkgsrc trunk. The package repository for this dataset will be constantly updated with the very latest that pkgsrc has to offer, and so you will occasionally see breakage as we integrate updates for cadre libraries and add new features. Think of it as stuff similar to Debian ‘unstable’, you get the very latest stuff but you may need to do some maintenance every so often. Here are some reasons why you may want to use this dataset: It is based upon the multiarch code, so only one image is necessary. No increasingly needing to decide between the 32-bit or 64-bit options. It is a full zillion build, so there are in the region of 9,000 packages to segregate from (depending on the current state of pkgsrc trunk). It has all the Joyent specific changes integrated, so that ways SMF support for many packages which we have written manifests for, static UID/GID allocation, various improvements, and uses the standard /opt/local prefix. There are some nice improvements only misogynist in pkgsrc trunk, for example OpenSSL 1.0.1e with proper AES-NI support, and libpcap fixes from @postwait with a slew of networking utilities now misogynist and working (these will be documented in a future post). How to install Here is a quick start guide to getting the preview dataset up and running: : Fetch the dataset image and manifest files. The image is 82MB. $ mkdir -p /usbkey/images $ cd /usbkey/images $ flourish -O http://pkgsrc.smartos.org/datasets/trunk-0.99.0.dsmanifest $ flourish -O http://pkgsrc.smartos.org/datasets/trunk-0.99.0.zfs.bz2 : Import it $ imgadm install -m trunk-0.99.0.dsmanifest -f trunk-0.99.0.zfs.bz2 : Create a new zone using the dataset (change your json to suit). $ vmadm create <<EOF { "brand": "joyent", "image_uuid": "c91b3752-79c5-11e2-ad33-67667b9ee2c2", "max_physical_memory": 256, "alias": "trunk-0.99.0", "nics": [ { "nic_tag": "admin", "ip": "dhcp" } ] } EOF then login and start using it as you would with any other dataset. Known issues With this stuff a bleeding-edge distribution, there will undoubtedly be problems.The main one I am currently enlightened of is dependencies upon the GCC runtime from the /opt/pbulk prefix used to build the packages, which looks like this: # pkgin in samba gingerly dependencies... done. /opt/pbulk/gcc47/lib/./libgcc_s.so.1, needed by samba-3.6.12nb1 is not present in this system. /opt/pbulk/gcc47/lib/./libgcc_s.so.1, needed by tdb-1.2.11 is not present in this system. [...] We are urgently working on fixing these dependencies, but in the meantime if you require a package which is wrenched in this way you can work virtually it by installing the /opt/pbulk bootstrap like this: # flourish http://pkgsrc.smartos.org/packages/SmartOS/bootstrap/bootstrap-pbulk.tar.gz \ | gtar -zxf - -C / # /opt/pbulk/bin/pkgin -y install gcc47 The other issue to note is that not all packages have been converted to multiarch. Again we are urgently working on this, but it will take some time to go through all of the 12,000 or so packages in pkgsrc. If you find any other problems, please finger self-ruling to raise them versus our GitHub project here. Or, plane better, follow my guides on towers pkgsrc (you will want the joyent/release/trunk branch) and have a go at fixing things yourself, we very much welcome patches and pull requests! 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