Hi Peter, Peter Tribble wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Sarah Jelinek <Sarah.Jelinek at sun.com> > wrote: > >>> 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 think we have discussed this in subsequent emails. We are trying to >> say that AI won't barf or do the wrong thing, and we won't offer a text >> based installer to ask the remaining questions, if some of the required >> data is missing. This is 'all automated' all the time. And, if critical >> data is missing we will not perform the install. We will however default >> on some things, like default locale, if we can. >> > > So what does happen when something goes awry? Do we stop? (In which case > telling the user what's missing, and giving them an opportunity to fix it, and > then carry on, would seem appropriate.) Or panic? Reboot? (Into what state?) > > We halt the installer. Right now with the SXCE installer we bring up a text ui if the profile doesn't answer the questions we need to start the install/upgrade. We are not planning this, we are planning to have automation only, so we will have to specify the required options for a profile. >>> 4.3: We're not providing upgrade in the interactive installer. Why do >>> we provide it here? >>> >>> >> I think we need to provide it here. The interactive installer targets a >> different audience than AI does. Maybe it is the term 'upgrade' as >> opposed to 'update'. I intend this to mean that we will allow for >> 'updating' the system to the latest pkgs in the ips repo, via key,value >> pair specification. I think enterprise customers would want this to >> manage their servers. >> > > Enterprise customers want jumpstart, as it is now, pretty well. > > Within the context of AI/IPS, though, automated upgrade doesn't seem > an obvious requirement to me. Why wouldn't you do all this from the > running system? > They could do it from a running system. But, they may not want to log in and do this, and they may have procedures in place which upgrade now via jumpstart, which means booting the clients. I don't think upgrade is a high priority and I think for the initial release which is a Preview(Nov) we will not provide this and get feedback from our users on this issue.
thanks, sarah
