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Puppet 2.7.9 & Facter 1.6.4 released at OpenCSW

Mark — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:14:19 +0000

I’ve ramped Puppet and Facter to be the latest versions at OpenCSW. Puppet is now at 2.7.9 and Facter at 1.6.4 in the ‘unstable’ (most recent packages) catalog.

Facter 1.5.8 and Puppet 2.6.6 for Solaris

Mark — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:43:32 +0000

I’ve taken over as maintainer of CSWfacter and CSWpuppet. Facter 1.5.8 has already been released and will hopefully be in the current catalog soon; and I’m currently testing Puppet 2.6.6 – feel free to check out this experimental Puppet and …

Solaris, what’s the point?

Mark — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:36:52 +0000

Well there we have it. Pretty much the last of the talent has left Sun. Oracle, you’re geniuses.

Patching a live Solaris 10 system with LU, ZFS, and PCA

Mark — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:22:27 +0000

Sun have done some work in recent times with liveupgrade – the last time I looked at it, a few years back now, it was rubbish. I thought it was about time I took another look, since a lot of …

JumpStart, sysidcfg, and the mystery of enabling network/nis/client

Mark — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:30:46 +0000

Came across an intriguing problem today. Whilst trying to develop a generic Solaris PXE boot solution for x86 Solaris installs I was having a problem with enabling NIS post install. Having chosen to use a very stripped out sysidcfg, with …

Benchmarking Linux, Solaris and Windows on HP hardware

Mark — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:28:09 +0000

A short while ago I got the opportunity to compare the performance of a number of operating systems on the same piece of hardware. The server in question was a HP DL580G5, but with four 6-core Intel Dunnington CPUs in, …

Choosing an Operating System

Mark — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:25:46 +0000

When it comes to picking what Operating System to use for your project, how do you go about picking the ‘right’ one? That’s not a simple question, and therefore there is no simple answer. There should be two factors that, …

Working out what package a file comes from in Solaris

Mark — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:11:41 +0000

As much as I like Solaris the packaging system is crap. And fathoming out what package you need to install to gain a particular command is nigh on impossible. I never do a full install of the OS, but frequently …

Building IPS on Solaris 10

Mark — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:34:29 +0000

Centralised package delivery on Solaris can be a bit of a pain. Blastwave was a nice solution, but with OpenCSW splitting away from them and the two camps now delivering the same packages to the same disk hierarchy we’re left …

CPAN 1.94 fixes Solaris untar issue

Mark — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:31:50 +0000

In my earlier post about using local::lib I commented that CPAN wouldn’t untar with the Solaris shipped tar program, and you had to use GNU tar from OpenCSW or Blastwave. 1.94 appears to fix the problem and untars just fine …