We’ve pushed GCC–4.6.2 into unstable.  Before we promote it to dublin (see the release branches for information what that means), we need to add the Ada compiler, which still requires more work.

We’ve released the R Project into the unstable catalog.

I was recently alerted to a useful resource for the Solaris Community that is worth sharing.  The wesunsolve.net site aims to fill a gap left by the Oracle takeover of Sun.  You can find all kinds of useful information about available patches, both bug and security, as well as patch clusters for the various versions of Solaris.  In the future, we’ll collect such useful resources in a Friends section of this site, but until that’s ready, this will hopefully direct more people to a great site.

This question seems rather trivial – just use pkginfo and be done with it. However, this gives you the complete list of installed CSW packages. Sometimes I come to a machine where another admin installed some CSW packages which pulled in a lot of dependencies. When trying to find out what the initial cause for installation was I wrote this tiny script that prints the minimal set of CSW packages needed to be installed to result in the current set of CSW packages installed. No magic in there, but sometimes these little helpers come in handy 🙂

#!/opt/csw/bin/perl

my @allpkgs = grep { /^CSW/ }
              map { (split( /\s+/ ))[1] }
              `/usr/bin/pkginfo`;
my %minimal;
$minimal{$_} = 1 foreach (@allpkgs);

# Remove dependencies
foreach (@allpkgs) {
  open D, "/var/sadm/pkg/$_/install/depend" or next;
  while( <D> ) {
    my ($type, $pkg) = split( /\s+/ );
    next if( $type ne "P" );
    delete $minimal{$pkg};
  }
  close D;
}
print "$_\n" foreach (keys %minimal);

We have just received the license from Adobe to distribute the Adobe Reader. As Adobe switched development from Solaris Sparc to Solaris x86 there are different versions available for each platform:

• Adobe Reader 8 for Solaris Sparc
• Adobe Reader 9 for Solaris x86

Have fun with CSWadobereader !

At long last, we are starting to refresh our GNOME libraries, and eventually, top level GNOME programs as well.
We hope to publish a modern “gedit” very soon. (in a few days)

We could very much use additional volunteers, either as packagers, or just volunteering to test packages before official release. Please let us know, either by contacting your favourite maintainer, or posting on the users list, or using the maintainer signup page.