Ethan Quach wrote: > Sundar Yamunachari wrote: > >> Dave Miner wrote: >> >>> Sarah Jelinek wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> Located at: >>>> >>>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/auto_install/AI_Reqs_Final/ >>>> >>>> Are an updated set of AI project requirements. These have been modified >>>> from the initial set sent out and reviewed a few months back. Some >>>> requirements have been clarified, some have been removed or reworded. >>>> Those that are specifically different are marked with a **. The >>>> requirements were revisited based on the initial discussion we had on >>>> this alias and the data we gathered during the prototyping work we did >>>> for AI. >>>> >>>> The old, initial requirements list is here: >>>> >>>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/auto_install/auto_requirements/ >>>> >>>> Please review and comment. The date for closure on comments for the AI >>>> requirements is one week from tomorrow, Friday, June 20th, noon PT. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> 3.2: it's not the language syntax, but the profile and rules that you're >>> verifying. >>> >>> 4.1: "complete automation support" leaves much to the imagination and >>> room for differing interpretations. I'd be more specific about what >>> this means. >>> >>> >> I believe that it means that we don't want to provide partial >> automation support. We don't want to go in to interactive mode like >> the Jumpstart installer if a sysidcfg configuration is missing. If a >> configuration is critical and missing, the installer will fail. If it >> is not critical, then the installer will continue. >> > > This sounds more like behavior specification than a requirement. Unless > you're saying > "the installer is required to bomb-out when some required piece of > configuration is not > specified" > Essentially that's what we are saying. I will reword this as it isn't clear. > >>> 4.3: We're not providing upgrade in the interactive installer. Why do >>> we provide it here? >>> >>> >> It is a convenient way of updating the system and the users don't need >> to deal creating BEs manually. >> > > They don't create BEs manually now with pkg image-update. > > Agreed. What we are saying is that we will provide an AI way for the user to get the pkg image-update done on the client. Same mechanism, just enabling the user to use AI to do this.
thanks, sarah **** > -ethan > > >> - Sundar >> >>> 10.1: I don't see why the "IPS installation affects performance" item is >>> here. Let's take a crack at some target performance soon, though, as we >>> need real criteria to judge against. Performance from a server on a >>> gigabit network, for example, should be better than installation from >>> the CD. >>> >>> 10.2: I don't understand what a "low-memory distribution" is meant to be. >>> >>> Dave >>> _______________________________________________ >>> caiman-discuss mailing list >>> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >>> >>> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> caiman-discuss mailing list >> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >> >> > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss > >
