Re: [9fans] Hi and, plan9-native abaco sources?

[Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>]

You're going to the right place with contrib/fgb, but it's a bit
trickier. Federico G. Benavento (fgb) created a system called
contrib. contrib allows you to install and maintain /n/sources/
contrib systems based on replica(1).

To install contrib:
	/n/sources/contrib/fgb/root/rc/bin/contrib/install fgb/contrib
When that is done, you get abaco and its sources with
	contrib/install fgb/abaco
To invoke abaco:
	abaco absolute-site
That is,
	abaco plan9.bell-labs.com
won't work; you need
	abaco http://plan9.bell-labs.com/
The source is in /sys/src/cmd/abaco after installation.

There's quite a bit of software on the contrib system so far. You
find out what with
	contrib/list username
To find which usernames have the contrib system, try this:
	du -a /n/sources/contrib | awk '{$1 = ""; print}' | grep '(replica|
root)' | awk -F/ '{ print $3 }' | sort -u
or something like that.

Happy Plan 9-ing!

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On Mar 7, 2008, at 10:00 PM, Sean Caron wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Just wanted to introduce myself as a new Plan 9 user; I have been
> wanting to play with it for years but always resisted polluting my
> network with x86 equipment.. but now that I took the plunge, I am
> really enjoying the hell out of it. The simplicity of Plan 9 makes
> getting my C chops back up to speed honestly a lot of fun; you can
> actually accomplish something without wasting a lot of time wading
> through a bunch of crap. That is cool.
>
> Now that I have a supported wireless NIC in my laptop (Compaq Evo
> n410C - perfectly supported, btw) I have been browsing sources/
> contrib and checking out some of the apps - abaco and ssh2 in
> particular. They work pretty well for my purposes (thanks for your
> work, guys!) I was wondering, though, if there was someplace where
> I could get the most recent (not plan9ports) abaco sources to peek
> at? The server,
>
> plan9.kicks-ass.org
>
> seems to always be down, and all I can find in contrib/fgb is the
> binary. I'm curious to see how it all goes together.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Sean Caron (scaron at umich.edu)