A few hours after the 0.8 Beta1 announcement was posted a regression was reported in the package manager due to which you might be seeing an ERROR message while installing:

ERROR: The following packages not found in any catalog: SUNWgnome-print SUNWgnome-print-root

The package manager spkg (SFEspkg) has been fixed, so just re-running  pfexec ./install_belenix -reinit  should automatically pull in the latest package.

After Belenix 0.8 Alpha which included exciting features such as the Google Widgets, Webkit, and KDE 4.2.4 -- all built with GCC 4.4.0 in addition to Gnome 2.26, BeleniX 0.8 Beta1 is now available with improvements (bug fixes and functionality) to the KDE 4.3.1 desktop and other apps and new package additions. Several fixes have been merged in from the Fedora Core 11 repository. You need to use the Network Installer in order to install this 0.8 Beta1 Release.

KDE 4.3.1 is now available for BeleniX 0.8 Alpha via the network installer. For instructions on how to use the network installer please follow this blog post:

http://moinakg.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/belenix-0-8-alpha-using-network-installer/

There is an Alpha release of BeleniX 0.8 available that can be
installed directly off the package repo via a network installer. There
is no LiveCD release yet, that will come later. The network installer
can be used if you are already using OpenSolaris 2009.xx or BeleniX
0.7.1. It will install 0.8 Alpha into a new boot environment leaving
your current BE untouched. While booting you will get a GRUB menu
option to boot into this environment.

Check this post for more details:

Many new packages have been published in the BeleniX repository including a few important ones:

* Gnome 2.26 packages from current JDS trunk

* Firefox stable 3.08 and 3.5B1

* Gcc 4.4 final release

* Other things like BOOST 1.38, Webkit etc.

An updated build of OpenSolaris B111 is available in the BeleniX repository. The earlier B107 drop had a couple of problems that are fixed in this build:

1) The SFEnicdrv-jmge package had errors

2) The B107 configuration was not updated to use ksh93 as default ksh.

These are fixed in the latest drop. You can use 'spkg upgrade base belenix0.7.1_b111' to upgrade.

OpenSolaris base Build 107 and new Xorg packages have been published into the repository. You can use spkg to upgrade your installation:

spkg updatecatalog

spkg upgrade base belenix0.7.1_b107

== Proposer ==
Moinak Ghosh

== Purpose ==
This is a project to develop a utility that can scan the entire partition table, identify bootable partitions and generate entries suitable for adding into GRUB's menu.lst file.

Standard OpenSolaris Build 101 and Crossbow Build 101 packages for the base OS have been added into the BeleniX package repository. The Standard Build and Crossbow builds are separate. The Standard Build goes into the mainline while Crossbow build is a separate train. This separate train will of course discontinue once Crossbow gets integrated into OpenSolaris.

You need to do the following in order to upgrade:

>> Grab latest spkg as there have been changes
pkgrm SFEspkg

A Network Package Repository for BeleniX is now online and functional. This was a much needed facility for subsequent developement. There is a new package manager client that has a whole lot of features and deals presently with SVR4 packages. Among other things it uses Axel for multi-stream and multi-site chunked downloads.

In order to setup you need to follow these simple steps:

pkgadd -d http://www.belenix.org/binfiles/SFEaxel.pkg

pkgadd -d http://www.belenix.org/binfiles/SFEspkg.pkg