Evan Layton wrote: > Dave Miner wrote: >> Evan Layton wrote: >>> Problem statement: >>> >>> 1) A method is needed to match the OS version the AI server is >>> running on with >>> the OS version being installed. >> >> As Ethan noted, you mean "client" here. > > Yes that's correct. It probably should have be something more like "the > OS version being installed on the client". > >> >>> Note: There is currently information being logged which shows >>> this but it's not used for anything. >>> 2) A method of determining which OS version can support installions of >>> which OS versions is needed. >>> 3) This is something that the user should not have to keep track of >>> and should be maintained internally. Should incompatibilities be >>> documented so that users can at least look up why we're telling them >>> that they have incompatible OS versions? >>> >> >> I think the part that's missing here is providing means to limit the >> incompatibility set. For example, installing an updated version of >> pkg into the installation environment once booted, or other software >> that we might need. > > OK so this is an additional requirement that all the needed packages and > their proper versions are installed on the client. In other words all > the correct packages corresponding to the version of the "entire" > package are installed on the client? >
I don't think that's quite what I'm suggesting. I'm suggesting that the client be capable of dynamically adapting itself to run the versions of executables required to correctly install a particular version of the software. >> >> Also, let's not forget that it's not just AI that we might want to do >> this with; the various interactive installers are likely to grow >> options (such as installing from a repository) which make this an >> issue for them, too. > > Right, Ethan also mentioned that this should really say "package based > installs" not AI. > I think limiting it to package-based is still too narrow, in that the completion operations associated with an image-based installation would seem to have similar issues. I realize that you can't necessarily design a solution for something that's not yet specified, but think it should be examined as far as we can right now to hopefully make the solution applicable for both. Dave
