Karen Tung wrote: > 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. >
It would be nice to fix it, as it decouples the implementations of DC and IPS a bit more. Dave
