Dyson — Debian GNU/kOpenSolaris

Updated GHC to 8.0.1 and some essential Haskell bits to compose Haskell environment:

The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 8.0.1
cabal-install version 1.24.0.1
Darcs 2.12.4 (release)
xmonad 0.12

At least it is buildable and runs.

Nix is a purely functional package manager. This means that it treats packages like values in purely functional programming languages such as Haskell — they are built by functions that don’t have side-effects, and they never change after they have been built.

New live CD and installer http://ftp.osdyson.org/iso/2016-09-24/.

It's a technical build addressing some issues. It installs "testing" release code-name "dufay".

Flawlessly upgraded. Updates to ZFS user-space and libc are coming soon.

uts (5.10.18.git.2a44663-0.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Here we go!
  * Deleted patches:
        debian/patches/desctbls_asm.s-rax.patch
        debian/patches/illumos-4431-4616-igb.patch
        debian/patches/illumos-4622-asy.patch
        debian/patches/illumos-4653.patch
        debian/patches/illumos-4679-intel-erratum-BT81.patch
        debian/patches/illumos-4682.patch
        debian/patches/illumos-4840-ddi_dma_mem_alloc.patch
        debian/patches/uts-cpr_stat.c-wtf.patch
        debian/patches/uts-hxge-operation-on-ldvp-may-be-undefined.patch
        debian/patches/uts-ib-hermon_cmd.c-undef-op.patch
        debian/patches/uts-ib-tavor_cmd.c-undef-op.patch
        debian/patches/uts-nxge-operation-on-ldvp-may-be-undefined.patch
        debian/patches/uts-strategy.c-undefined-op.patch
        debian/patches/uts-struct-ecppunit-e_busy-type.patch
  * Updated patches:
        debian/patches/dyson-split-system-AVL-headers.patch
        debian/patches/illumos-3373-gcc-offsetof.patch
        debian/patches/statfs-is-statvfs.patch
        debian/patches/sys-mnttab.h-include-stdio.h.patch
        debian/patches/sys_mman.h-bsd_source.patch
  * Refreshed patches:
        debian/patches/add-futimes.patch
        debian/patches/msghdr-xpg42.patch
        debian/patches/relax-standard-conformance.patch
        debian/patches/sys-socket.h-no-redefine-extname-in-kernel.patch
  * Added patches:
        debian/patches/bnxe-macro.patch

 -- Igor Pashev <pashev.igor@gmail.com>  Mon, 19 Oct 2015 20:35:38 +0300

After 4 years of packaging illumos I have figured out the best way
and now I'm switching to 3.0 (quilt) format with source tarballs.
This allows faster and more flexible updates from upstream.

As a side effect, we can see all the patches http://patches.osdyson.org

The kernel first: http://cgit.osdyson.org/illumos/illumos-packaging.git/tree/uts/debian/rules?id=b7d8d6db6e733656a1fd628859e4e6b1a6477a23

# cat ../uts_4.3.1.git.35107df-2_illumos-amd64.changes
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA256

Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 10:39:45 +0300
Source: uts
Binary: illumos-kernel illumos-kernel-headers uts-dev
Architecture: source illumos-amd64
Version: 4.3.1.git.35107df-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Igor Pashev <pashev.igor@gmail.com>
Changed-By: Igor Pashev <pashev.igor@gmail.com>
Description:
 illumos-kernel - illumos kernel and modules
 illumos-kernel-headers - illumos kernel header files
 uts-dev    - illumos kernel support headers for userspace development
Changes:
 uts (4.3.1.git.35107df-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Use 3.0 (quilt) format with new dh_illumos_gate
Checksums-Sha1:
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 30d97a72b36832af975c68730528d3c9cd68f742 31309280 uts_4.3.1.git.35107df.orig.tar.xz
 f662aea193ef6eb093005bd6fee3bec09c916d1a 68652 uts_4.3.1.git.35107df-2.debian.tar.xz
 419e464919546bdfce601989fcaf080552715162 2283054 illumos-kernel-headers_4.3.1.git.35107df-2_illumos-amd64.deb
 6a1babb4af488721ff5c9c4ecedf58c103bf9551 16832538 illumos-kernel_4.3.1.git.35107df-2_illumos-amd64.deb
 5e07e525fec8b0e5eb9ad5d4fa4f2a94362fd429 2925786 uts-dev_4.3.1.git.35107df-2_illumos-amd64.deb
Checksums-Sha256:
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 56addf917b57d62c898813a128786eb0ffd4c8b15d1d7d06086ef0f9b3d76ea0 31309280 uts_4.3.1.git.35107df.orig.tar.xz
 7486f9c40a1312f5392f319373570470ebe76a54fc9e69eec59cc42ea535e379 68652 uts_4.3.1.git.35107df-2.debian.tar.xz
 4390336fad89365ecca5543a5ab62425a719346a91a6aab460a6dfaf54d737fe 2283054 illumos-kernel-headers_4.3.1.git.35107df-2_illumos-amd64.deb
 22f4f279ede31ea402927ab7c506813d63610fa3626f543b5e8e1029487d4ade 16832538 illumos-kernel_4.3.1.git.35107df-2_illumos-amd64.deb
 804e5118afc9fd74e99452a1d61fd62e6e201a0f2395866e4e525506c2e542cb 2925786 uts-dev_4.3.1.git.35107df-2_illumos-amd64.deb
Files:
 b60d366d3f5e0a9b0b60a4e9ba9352c6 1619 kernel optional uts_4.3.1.git.35107df-2.dsc
 784b184551edc554b9cd842f3d423012 31309280 kernel optional uts_4.3.1.git.35107df.orig.tar.xz
 fd947a15f1354a7405344aaa1b1cc345 68652 kernel optional uts_4.3.1.git.35107df-2.debian.tar.xz
 7289f9dc02f973f726d355fa21d3d6e3 2283054 kernel optional illumos-kernel-headers_4.3.1.git.35107df-2_illumos-amd64.deb

After Dyson at Hetzner it became possible to hack VirtualBox host capabilities,
e. i. running guest OS, like Dyson itself :-)

It works.

# modinfo | grep vbox
258 fffffffff82ef000  3a268 333   1  vboxdrv (VirtualBox HostDrv 4.3.10_Debia)
259 fffffffff81885a8    da0 334   1  vboxnet (VirtualBox NetAdp 4.3.10_Debian)
261 fffffffff832e000   7a68 335   1  vboxflt (VirtualBox NetDrv 4.3.10_Debian)
261 fffffffff832e000   7a68   -   1  vboxflt (VirtualBox NetMod 4.3.10_Debian)

There is a minor issue #188.

I launched it via SSH X forwarding:

Just Go.

(23:20:43)
[pashev@dyson:~/GCD]
# go version
go version go1.4.2 solaris/amd64

(23:20:58)
[pashev@dyson:~/GCD]
# go build -a -x  gcd.go
WORK=/tmp/go-build382508362
mkdir -p $WORK/command-line-arguments/_obj/
cd /home/pashev/GCD
/usr/lib/go/pkg/tool/solaris_amd64/6g -o $WORK/command-line-arguments.a -trimpath $WORK -p command-line-arguments -complete -D _/home/pashev/GCD -I $WORK -pack ./gcd.go
cd .
/usr/lib/go/pkg/tool/solaris_amd64/6l -o gcd -L $WORK -extld=gcc $WORK/command-line-arguments.a

(23:21:02)
[pashev@dyson:~/GCD]
# ./gcd 11 22 33 44 121
11

Milestone¶

Previous "stable" (= unsupported) release is gone. Its name was "messier".
New "stable" (= unsupported) release is "lacaille".
New "testing" is "dufay". Unstable is always "bok".

This new live CD installs "lacaille": http://ftp.osdyson.org/iso/2015-07-07/

New live CD¶

• Built out of lastest packages
• smbclient and telnet on CD

Installer¶

• Suggests mirror instead of main APT repository ;-)
• Non-root user is added into sudo group
• Installs less and ntp in basic (no X) mode
• Additionally installs qpdfview and xfonts-terminus in desktop mode
• Really installs ping and traceroute

New Coreutils 8.24 come with experimental ACL support, ls only, see #106:

# ls --acl /etc/vfstab 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 459 дек 31  2014 /etc/vfstab
     0:owner@:read_data/write_data/append_data/read_xattr/write_xattr
         /read_attributes/write_attributes/read_acl/write_acl/write_owner
         /synchronize:allow
     1:group@:read_data/read_xattr/read_attributes/read_acl/synchronize:allow
     2:everyone@:read_data/read_xattr/read_attributes/read_acl/synchronize
         :allow