[OmniOS-discuss] Bug ?

Dan McDonald danmcd at kebe.com
Mon Jul 3 15:18:42 UTC 2017


> On Jul 3, 2017, at 10:41 AM, Jim Klimov <jimklimov at cos.ru> wrote:
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> Among technological differences between OI and OO, a notable benefit is LX zones. It was often stated that OI community has not enough resources to deviate from upstream illumos-gate, since maintaining a fork beyond a branding patch or so is indeed complicated.
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> I got wondering if it is possible to take omnios-gate and build just the LX-related bits for the sake of adding the LX brand support as a few packages installable to "vanilla" illumos-gate os/net? In the binary end, it does add just some modules, tools and scripts, right? At least, if this works, it might help until LX is upstreamed...

The LX port data (lists of commits from illumos-joyent I did and did not take), including the semi-automatic scripting I have for merging is all tarred up here:

	https://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/Maintainers

Dan



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