Opensource software for Solaris

This Twiki entry should be considered a log of what's been done. It is not a polished document. A separate twiki entry should be created for formal howto on administration.

The setup is based on http://www.blastwave.org/. Consider the setup in CS to be BETA. We have setup at core.cs:/opt/csw/ which is on the netapp and consequently is backed up. An automount setup has been put in place on other hosts.

Note that this mount has a version of tset that's incompatible with the version distributed by xhier, and therefore will break peoples' login scripts if csw comes first in one's PATH. (Possible Fix. Use xh-ln to link in xhier version. To ensure that running pkg-get upgrade would not clobber this link would entail writing a cover for pkg-get in the same way that there already exists a cover for apt-get in the xhier package debian-1 that uninstalls xhier redirects prior to updating CSW packages)

To the automount setup. Setup a mount point. mkdir -p /autofs/software ln -s /autofs/software/csw /opt/csw

Set up the automount maps in /etc/auto_master:

# New open source software directory
/autofs/software        auto_software

Create /etc/auto_software:

# csw tree is the opensource software we're getting from
# http://www.blastwave.org/. We do the install of the software
# on core.cs using /opt/csw/bin/pkg-get which installs it on the
# fs102.cs file server. The backup host then rsync's fs102.cs to
# fs02.student.cs file server that night.
#
csw -ro fs102.cs.uwaterloo.ca,fs02.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca(1):/opt/csw

Ensure /etc/init.d/autofs is present (along with /etc/rc{0,1,S}.d/K41autofs and /etc/rc2.d/S74autofs.

Run /etc/init.d/autofs start. Enjoy. Maybe consider putting /opt/csw/bin last in your PATH, but note that some xhier packages may conflict so watch out for that.

-- MikePatterson - 16 May 2006

I have examined /opt/csw/etc/pkg-get.conf used by pkg-get. Clearly these tools are analogues of the Debian counterparts of /etc/apt/sources.list and apt-get, respectively. According to http://www.blastwave.org/userguide there are two choices of repositories of packages, known, respectively as stable and unstable. To choose one or the other we do:

To select stable or unstable , set the url= entry in
/opt/csw/etc/pkg-get.conf to point to a mirror's unstable or stable
subdirectory.

For information on the uage of pkg-get, see man page and Howto.

-- WalterTautz - 21 Aug 2006