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CVS commit: pkgsrc/doc/guide/files
Module Name: pkgsrc
Committed By: sevan
Date: Sun Jul 10 01:32:44 UTC 2016
Modified Files:
pkgsrc/doc/guide/files: platforms.xml
Log Message:
Remove the Interix section now that the content has been moved to bootstrap/README.Interix
To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.98 -r1.99 pkgsrc/doc/guide/files/platforms.xml
Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
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Modified files:
Index: pkgsrc/doc/guide/files/platforms.xml
diff -u pkgsrc/doc/guide/files/platforms.xml:1.98 pkgsrc/doc/guide/files/platforms.xml:1.99
--- pkgsrc/doc/guide/files/platforms.xml:1.98 Sat Jul 9 16:19:15 2016
+++ pkgsrc/doc/guide/files/platforms.xml Sun Jul 10 01:32:43 2016
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $NetBSD: platforms.xml,v 1.98 2016/07/09 16:19:15 rillig Exp $ -->
+<!-- $NetBSD: platforms.xml,v 1.99 2016/07/10 01:32:43 sevan Exp $ -->
<chapter id="platforms">
<title>Using pkgsrc on systems other than &os;</title>
@@ -69,209 +69,5 @@
<para>For details related to supported versions consult the platform-specific README files found in <xref linkend="supported-platforms"/></para>
- <sect2 id="interix">
- <title>Interix</title>
-
- <para>Interix is a POSIX-compatible subsystem for the Windows NT kernel,
- providing a Unix-like environment with a tighter kernel integration than
- available with Cygwin. It is part of the Windows Services for Unix
- package, available for free for any licensed copy of Windows 2000, XP
- (not including XP Home), or 2003. SFU can be downloaded from <ulink
- url="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/";>http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/</ulink>.</para>
-
- <para>Services for Unix 3.5 has been tested. 3.0 or 3.1 may work, but
- are not officially supported. (The main difference in 3.0/3.1 is lack
- of pthreads, but other parts of libc may also be lacking.)</para>
-
- <para>Services for Unix Applications (aka SUA) is an integrated
- component of Windows Server 2003 R2 (5.2), Windows Vista and
- Windows Server 2008 (6.0), Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
- (6.1). As of this writing, the SUA's Interix 6.0 (32bit) and
- 6.1 (64bit) subsystems have been tested. Other versions may
- work as well. The Interix 5.x subsystem has not yet been tested
- with pkgsrc.</para>
-
- <sect3 id="platform.interix-sfu-install">
- <title>When installing Interix/SFU</title>
-
- <para>At an absolute minimum, the following packages must be installed from
- the Windows Services for Unix 3.5 distribution in order to use pkgsrc:</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para>Utilities -> Base Utilities</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>Interix GNU Components -> (all)</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>Remote Connectivity</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>Interix SDK</para></listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- <para>When using pkgsrc on Interix, DO NOT install the Utilities subcomponent
- "UNIX Perl". That is Perl 5.6 without shared module support, installed to
- /usr/local, and will only cause confusion. Instead, install Perl 5.8 from
- pkgsrc (or from a binary package).</para>
-
- <para>The Remote Connectivity subcomponent "Windows Remote Shell Service" does
- not need to be installed, but Remote Connectivity itself should be
- installed in order to have a working inetd.</para>
-
- <para>During installation you may be asked whether to enable setuid
- behavior for Interix programs, and whether to make pathnames default to
- case-sensitive. Setuid should be enabled, and case-sensitivity MUST be
- enabled. (Without case-sensitivity, a large number of packages including
- perl will not build.)</para>
-
- <para>NOTE: Newer Windows service packs change the way binary execution
- works (via the Data Execution Prevention feature). In order to use
- pkgsrc and other gcc-compiled binaries reliably, a hotfix containing
- POSIX.EXE, PSXDLL.DLL, PSXRUN.EXE, and PSXSS.EXE (899522 or newer)
- must be installed. Hotfixes are available from Microsoft through a
- support contract; however, Debian Interix Port has made most Interix
- hotfixes available for personal use from <ulink
- url="http://www.debian-interix.net/hotfixes/";>http://www.debian-interix.net/hotfixes/</ulink>.</para>
-
- <para>In addition to the hotfix noted above, it may be necessary to
- disable Data Execution Prevention entirely to make Interix functional.
- This may happen only with certain types of CPUs; the cause is not fully
- understood at this time. If gcc or other applications still segfault
- repeatedly after installing one of the hotfixes note above, the
- following option can be added to the appropriate "boot.ini" line on the
- Windows boot drive: /NoExecute=AlwaysOff
- (WARNING, this will disable DEP completely, which may be a security
- risk if applications are often run as a user in the Administrators
- group!)</para>
-
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3 id="platform.interix-sfu-postinstall">
- <title>What to do if Interix/SFU is already installed</title>
-
- <para>If SFU is already installed and you wish to alter these settings to work
- with pkgsrc, note the following things.</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>To uninstall UNIX Perl, use Add/Remove Programs, select Microsoft
- Windows Services for UNIX, then click Change. In the installer, choose
- Add or Remove, then uncheck Utilities->UNIX Perl.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>To enable case-sensitivity for the file system, run REGEDIT.EXE, and
- change the following registry key:</para>
- <para>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\kernel</para>
- <para>Set the DWORD value "obcaseinsensitive" to 0; then reboot.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>To enable setuid binaries (optional), run REGEDIT.EXE, and change the
- following registry key:</para>
- <para>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Services for UNIX</para>
- <para>Set the DWORD value "EnableSetuidBinaries" to 1; then reboot.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- </sect3>
- <sect3 id="platform.interix-notes">
- <title>Important notes for using pkgsrc</title>
-
- <para>The package manager (either the pkgsrc "su" user, or the user
- running "pkg_add") must be a member of the local Administrators
- group. Such a user must also be used to run the bootstrap. This is
- slightly relaxed from the normal pkgsrc requirement of "root".</para>
-
- <para>The package manager should use a umask of 002. "make install" will
- automatically complain if this is not the case. This ensures that
- directories written in /var/db/pkg are Administrators-group writeable.</para>
-
- <para>The popular Interix binary packages from http://www.interopsystems.com/
- use an older version of pkgsrc's pkg_* tools. Ideally, these should
- NOT be used in conjunction with pkgsrc. If you choose to use them at
- the same time as the pkgsrc packages, ensure that you use the proper
- pkg_* tools for each type of binary package.</para>
-
- <para>The TERM setting used for DOS-type console windows (including those
- invoked by the csh and ksh startup shortcuts) is "interix". Most systems
- don't have a termcap/terminfo entry for it, but the following .termcap
- entry provides adequate emulation in most cases:</para>
-
-<programlisting>
-interix:kP=\E[S:kN=\E[T:kH=\E[U:dc@:DC@:tc=pcansi:
-</programlisting>
-
- </sect3>
- <sect3 id="platform.interix-limits">
- <title>Limitations of the Interix platform</title>
-
- <para>Though Interix suffices as a familiar and flexible substitute
- for a full Unix-like platform, it has some drawbacks that should
- be noted for those desiring to make the most of Interix.</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
-
- <listitem><para><emphasis role="strong">X11:</emphasis></para>
- <para>Interix comes with the standard set of X11R6 client libraries,
- and can run X11 based applications, but it does
- <emphasis>not</emphasis> come with an X server. Some options are
- <ulink url="http://www.starnet.com/products/xwin32/";>StarNet X-Win32</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://connectivity.hummingbird.com/products/nc/exceed/";>Hummingbird Exceed</ulink>
- (available in a trimmed version for Interix from Interop Systems as the
- <ulink url="http://www.interopsystems.com/InteropXserver.htm";>Interop X Server</ulink>),
- and the free X11 server included with
- <ulink url="http://x.cygwin.com/";>Cygwin</ulink>.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem><para><emphasis role="strong">X11 acceleration:</emphasis></para>
- <para>Because Interix runs in a completely different NT subsystem from
- Win32 applications, it does not currently support various X11
- protocol extensions for acceleration (such as MIT-SHM or DGA).
- Most interactive applications to a local X server will run
- reasonably fast, but full motion video and other graphics
- intensive applications may require a faster-than-expected CPU.</para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para><emphasis role="strong">Audio:</emphasis></para>
- <para>Interix has no native support for audio output. For audio
- support, pkgsrc uses the <command>esound</command> client/server
- audio system on Interix. Unlike on most platforms, the
- <filename role="pkg">audio/esound</filename> package does
- <emphasis>not</emphasis> contain the <command>esd</command>
- server component. To output audio via an Interix host, the
- <filename role="pkg">emulators/cygwin_esound</filename> package
- must also be installed.</para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para><emphasis role="strong">CD/DVDs, USB, and SCSI:</emphasis></para>
- <para>Direct device access is not currently supported in Interix, so it
- is not currently possible to access CD/DVD drives, USB devices,
- or SCSI devices through non-filesystem means. Among other things,
- this makes it impossible to use Interix directly for CD/DVD
- burning.</para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para><emphasis role="strong">Tape drives:</emphasis></para>
- <para>Due to the same limitations as for CD-ROMs and SCSI devices, tape
- drives are also not directly accessible in Interix. However,
- support is in work to make tape drive access possible by using
- Cygwin as a bridge (similarly to audio bridged via Cygwin's
- esound server).</para></listitem>
-
- </itemizedlist>
- </sect3>
- <sect3 id="platform.interix-knownissues">
- <title>Known issues for pkgsrc on Interix</title>
-
- <para>It is not necessary, in general, to have a "root" user on the
- Windows system; any member of the local Administrators group will
- suffice. However, some packages currently assume that the user
- named "root" is the privileged user. To accommodate these, you
- may create such a user; make sure it is in the local group
- Administrators (or your language equivalent).</para>
-
- <para><command>pkg_add</command> creates directories of mode
- 0755, not 0775, in <filename>$PKG_DBDIR</filename>. For the
- time being, install packages as the local Administrator (or
- your language equivalent), or run the following command after
- installing a package to work around the issue:</para>
-
- <screen>
-&rprompt; <userinput>chmod -R g+w $PKG_DBDIR</userinput>
- </screen>
-
- </sect3>
- </sect2>
</sect1>
</chapter>
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