rmustacc the Apple USB Ethernet. The Model is 4588CE according to dmesg. the driver is axf. Now I'm trying to figure out how to install an IPS package locally :D

mounting DOS/FAT32/PCFS took me like 10 minutes

turns out the p5i files were just text...

hi all

hi Guest97

try to get open-vm-tools running, says that NTP is a dependency and NTP is currently offline

so I was trying to get NTP to report as online first

kinda stuck

I've done 'svcadm disable ntp' and 'svcadm enable ntp'

running v11 r151048i

Guest97 try running `svcadm enable chrony` . looks like that's the NTP daemon

'chrony' doesn't match any instances

Guest97 weird. I have chrony and not ntp.

Guest97 well, regardless. what does `svcs -xv ntp` say?

svc:/network/ntp:default (Network Time Protocol (NTP) Version 4)

 State: offline since Sun Jan 28 18:33:56 2024

Reason: Unknown.

   See: illumos.org/msg/SMF-8000-AR

   See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 8 ntpd

   See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 5 ntp.conf

   See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 8 ntpq

Impact: This service is not running.

Guest97 weird. btw you can try a Gist next time, in case the output is longer.

sure

are you running open-vm-tools?

antranigv

Guest97 nope :/

That's the ESXi thing, right?

yup

Guest97 does it even work for illumos based systems?

yeah, there is a service, and it is installed.  I don't think that VMware makes tools for Solaris any longer... but they still develop open vm tools for it

svc:/system/virtualization/open-vm-tools:default (Open Virtual Machine Tools)

 State: offline since Sun Jan 28 17:38:46 2024

and it relies on NTP?

when I do a 'svcs -l open-vm-tools'

'''# svcs -l open-vm-tools

fmri         svc:/system/virtualization/open-vm-tools:default

name         Open Virtual Machine Tools

enabled      true

state        offline

next_state   none

state_time   Sun Jan 28 17:38:46 2024

restarter    svc:/system/svc/restarter:default

dependency   require_all/none svc:/milestone/multi-user (online)

dependency   exclude_all/none svc:/network/ntp:default (offline)

dependency   exclude_all/none svc:/network/chrony:default (absent)'''

sorry - that wasn't formatted right

does that 'exclude_all' mean it doesn't need it then?

Guest97 I've been using OmniOS for 2 weeks so I wanna say "not sure" :D

let's see if someone else knows.

Say that now I've downloaded core and extras locally. how can I convert them to a cute website like pkg.omnios.org/...../index.shtml ? :)

Okay, figured that out too!

antranigv - I saw you asked about rust in omnios-build-tools. Yes, there are a couple of things in omnios-build that use rust. Off the top of my head there is the python orjson module, and actually more and more python modules have bits written in rust. It's a somewhat bizarre trend.

andyf bizarre indeed

andyf on the bright side, look what I have now! pkg.omnios0.hackerspace.am/en/index.shtml

Oh, nice!

it was not as hard as I thought. But there's more to learn

speed went from 1M/s to 10M/s yeeeey

I'll modify my mirror a bit so I can host extras as well

I wonder how big are the extras

and to set it to a version number as well

this is just a trial run in our hackerspace. I need to run on a production server that has a proper UPS, better INET, etc. but it's really easy to setup

I wonder if I can mirror pkgsrc of Joyent as well.

pkgrecv got stuck at ooce/application/texlive; for the third time already

how does IPS choose which origin/mirror to use?

does it do like a ping test or something?

I was just reading the logs and looks like I ramble a lot :)

Sometimes it's good to hear such ramblings from someone outside the bubble ;-)

wacki awww, thank you

but looks like I'm joining the bubble more and more each day

after a LONG wait it continued

What I remember about texlive in general is that it's enormous, which could have an impact

I wonder if there's a better way to mirror. Altho spending a day once every 6 months is not a bad idea.

texlive has so many small files that it really stresses IPS. It should get there though!

As far as I remember, IPS constantly monitors the response times from all of the origins and mirrors, and will dynamically allocate requests based on that.

I certainly don't see a slow down on my boxes in the UK which have the US mirrors configured, despite them being relatively slow for me compared to the main servers in Zurich

So having stable core + stable extra took about 30G. I also need to bring in bloody just in case someone wants to do a development

the URL sucks, I should do /r151048/core and /r151048/extra like the main IPS server, otherwise I will get confused

(serving on / was a bad idea)

Now I've set hackerspace.am to origin and ETH to mirror. I hope that's normal for IPS.

andyf this might sound dumb, but can I add speedtest-py or speedtest-go into packages? it would be fun to have it in extras, I'm sure many people would use it.

That must mean that hackerspace.am is a full copy, not a mirror. Usually you'd set the origin to point to ETH as it's the definitive source, and sometimes might have files that haven't replicated yet.

mirrors (that is, pkg/server instances configured as mirrors) can't act as origins

andyf I learned that by reading the docs, so I did a full copy.

and I'll setup a cronjob to pkgrecv every 24 hours.

antranigv - speedtest - yes, sounds like a good idea. The only criterion for packages in omnios-extra is that they have somebody that uses them!

looks like I'll be changing the domain to pkg.omnios.illumos.am :)))))

andyf I'll go over the porting process and do it this week. Personally I use it a lot, and the Go version seems tiny and fancy at the same time.

there is also the svc:/application/pkg/mirror:default service, which I do remember getting working at one point. It is probably easier to just have a cron job kicking off a pkg recv though - that's all the service does as far as I remember.

is there periodic on illumos?

FreeBSD's periodic is similar to cron (actually, it gets run from a cron) but runs only once when running

say I have a pkgrecv every 1 hour, but the first one hasn't finished yet... the second one might kick of

but with periodic, only once will kick off

No, I don't see that available.

what do the numbers mean? r151048, r151049, etc. do they change weekly or monthly?

Take a look at omnios.org/schedule as a start

so each number is a quarter

No. Each even number is 6mo stable. each odd number marks activity between each even number. The `bloody` pkg5 repo should always be (current-stable + 1).

danmcd ahh I see!

I was able to setup extra.omnios repo as well

but here's what's bothering me. I have to use a proto://domain in proxy_base

I think it might be better to setup only a path i.e. /rVersion/core

that way, in case the domain changes in the future (which will be in my case in couple of hours) I don't have to reconfigure a lot of things

I assume the code for depotd is out there. I have to check

It's part of github.com/omniosorg/pkg5

antranigv: do you have notes from setting up a local mirror by any chance?

papertigers yes, all of it. I'm planning on blogging it in a bit.

It's something I haven been meaning to do for awhile but never got around to

nice, looking forward to it!

First illumos post on my blog. fingers crossed.