Dave Miner wrote: > 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 > Good point. But DC still doesn't need a ICT if it wants to keep the index. We just remove the finalizer script that delete the index. I just filed bug 3997. This is changes needed for DC to take advantage of the --no-index option when it is available. Since this is kinda like a feature, not sure whether we should work on it since it is post-feature freeze now.
--Karen
