* Jack Schwartz (Jack.A.Schwartz at Sun.COM) wrote: > On 03/06/09 14:42, Eric J. Ray wrote: >> >> On Mar 6, 2009, at 3:24 PM, Jack Schwartz wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone. >>> >>> IMHO, have the test team build their own distro, having them add >>> whatever they want to their custom manifest, including grub entries >>> for ssh. This would be a good test of DC as well as the repo and >>> other components of the building process. >>> >> >> Having them build their own distro is well and good...but that doesn't >> allow >> them to test real shipping bits. > True, but if they use the same repo as the shipping bits are built from, > use the same version of the tools used to build their image, and use the > same manifest except for the mods to enable ssh, their bits will be very > close to shipping bits.
I would agree with this (for what it's worth). The way I would approach this is we add support to enable SSH and language config in DC and in the SMF startup scripts. Then if test needs a fully automated image, they spin up DC with a manifest that enables a grub entry to turn SSH on and whatever language default they want. It should be 'close enough' to shipping bits (as long as they're pointed at the same repo as RE). This then also buys us the ability to manually pass those options in to grub from a generic liveCD should anyone need/want to do so. The default liveCD stays the same as it is today but can be enhanced by editing the grub menu at boot time. We also can create a customized liveCD that enables these things at construction time (as test is likely to want to do). Best of both worlds. Cheers, -- Glenn
