Karen Tung wrote: > Joseph J VLcek wrote: >> Hey Dave, >> >> I have read through the following bugs: >> >> Bug 3958 New: ICT remove_install_specific_packages needs to skip indexing >> Bug 2863 pkg install should have a way to disable indexing >> Bug 2873 rebuild the indices for pkg(1) as one of the Installation >> Completion Tasks >> >> >> I just want to make sure I understand what needs to be done for 11.2008 >> >> - Bug 2873 rebuild the indices for pkg(1) as one of the Installation >> Completion Tasks >> >> I plan not to do anything regarding Bug 2873 until after 11.2008 and >> it will not likely be done automatically by ICT. However I think having >> an ICT that might be usable by D-C to do this could be valuable. But >> again we can work that post 11.2008. >> > I don't believe DC will ever want to rebuild the search index as part of > the image > construction. Those index are huge and they take up a lot of room on > the image. > That's why we manually delete them now. >
Other media formats or distribution goals may cause a distribution maintainer to make different choices than we are presently making for OpenSolaris. Never say never, in other words... Dave
