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Project overview video 18 Feb 2013 | 12:28 am
If you’re unfamiliar with what OpenCSW is, and have an hour to spend watching a presentation, this is for you. In the video, Dagobert Michelsen presents the project overview: what is OpenCSW, what doe...
Platforms 16 Jan 2013 | 02:04 pm
In this video, Dagobert Michelsen presents talks about ‘platforms’, a part of setup which allows you to build packages for SPARC and Intel with a single mgar invocation. If you have any questions or c...
Modulations in GAR 6 Jan 2013 | 03:18 pm
In this video, Dagobert Michelsen presents how to roll multiple versions of the same software into a single package, or a set of related packages. If you have any questions or comments, drop by our IR...
Tutorial: Patching source code in GAR 26 Dec 2012 | 06:35 pm
Here’s one more tutorial, showing how to package a piece of software that would not compile out of the box, and needs to be patched. If you have any questions or comments, drop by our IRC channel.
GAR setup and packaging tutorial 18 Dec 2012 | 05:07 pm
If you were thinking about trying to build packages on your own, here’s a 35 minute long video showing how to set up GAR on your own Solaris 10 host. It starts with a freshly installed Solaris 10 and ...
Roadmap for 2013 24 Nov 2012 | 04:31 pm
Most of the year 2012 at OpenCSW was spent trying to keep up to date with core packages, and testing the new package flow. The unstable catalog was getting very frequent updates directly from package ...
‘stable’ declared dead 12 Nov 2012 | 05:44 pm
If you visit our mirror and try to pull packages from the ‘stable’ catalog, you will get an error. This is intentional, as described in the README file. The toplevel stable catalog is considered to be...
The ‘dublin’ catalog is in freeze 24 Jun 2012 | 05:14 am
We have frozen migrations from the unstable catalog to ‘dublin’. In the unstable catalog, there’s a large ongoing upgrade of OpenSSL, from version 0.9.8 to 1.0.0. It requires many rebuilds. Some of th...
pkgutil −−cleanup 28 May 2012 | 11:32 pm
If you’re upgrading OpenCSW packages installed on your systems, you’ve noticed the ongoing package renames and splits. We’re actively working on splitting shared libraries into own packages, and corre...
Spring cleaning 17 Apr 2012 | 04:17 am
During the Wintercamp in Bratislava this weekend, we have dropped from the catalog a number of packages which we considered not useful. Some packages were just too old, or newer versions were availabl...
