Twisted and OpenSolaris: Success!

At OSCON this year, I had a chance to say "hello" to the OpenSolaris team in the bar of the Double Tree Hotel, where I proudly announced to them that I was a fanboy :-) LAter, after seeing several presentations that were done on top of OpenSolaris, I made a solemn promise to myself to make time to test Twisted on a fresh install of OpenSolaris.

Initial Setup

My install was done on an iMac via Parallels, for which this post< /a> was essential. With it, I was able to setup networking. I also needed to disable nwamd so that I could configure the network manually:

-bash-3.2# svcadm disable svc:/network/physical:nwam
-bash-3.2# svcadm enable svc:/network/physical:default

However, that post's instructions for full native resolution seem to be out of date. I don't have time to mess with it right now, so 1024x768 will have to do. When I get the exact steps, I'll post an update.

Packages

Here are the commands I used to get my python development environment ready for Twisted:

-bash-3.2# pkgadd -d http://www.blastwave.org/pkg_get.pkg
-bash-3.2# /opt/csw/bin/pkg-get -U
-bash-3.2# /opt/csw/bin/pkg-get -i pysvn
-bash-3.2# /opt/csw/bin/pkg-get -i gcc4g++

Since pkg-get takes care of dependencies, pysvn installs python, svn, sqlite3, and openssl (among others). Similarly, gcc4g++ installs a bunch of stuff I need for dev too.

I also needed to update my .bashrc with the following:

export PATH=/opt/csw/bin:/opt/csw/sbin:/opt/csw/gcc4/bin:$PATH
export CC=gcc

Manual Installs

pyOpenSSL