Re: [Gluster-devel] tar ball or svn or some other way to take a src snapshot?

[rhubbell]

Yeah I've looked at blastwave before. Just never used it. I see they
have packages for tla.

WHo builds the packages they distribute? I was unable to find any
details.  It looks like Sun backs them.

The tla tar ball I dl'd had issues and wouldn't build.

On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 02:19 -0500, Joe Landman wrote:
> rhubbell wrote:
> > That was my first thought when I found out sunfreeware had no pre-built
> > tla.   I optimistically ruled it out when I thought I could build tla
> > on solaris.  But it turns out that trying to build tla on solaris
> > is a gift in disguise.  I'm thinking I will look at getting tla
> > to build then try gluster again.
> 
> The only success we have had with other FOSS tools on Solaris platforms 
> has been using the Blastwave repository.
> 
> If you have a choice on the OS variant of Solaris, I would strongly urge 
> Nexenta, as building FOSS is quite easy (it is Debian with a Solaris 
> kernel).  If it has to be pure Sun Solaris, then get the latest version, 
> and use the blastwave tools to augment your system.  If it is 
> OpenSolaris, do a similar thing.
>