On Mar 13, 2008, at 10:36 AM, Dave Miner wrote: > Jonathan Edwards wrote: >> hacking around the the livemedia kit i'm noticing that >> mkbootcd.files.minimal seems to be woefully out of date from the >> most recent sxde (nv79) or nevada (nv84/nv85) .. am in the process >> of cleaning this up, but i'm wondering on some of the rhyme or >> reason behind some of the files that are determined to be >> minimal .. is this being tracked by caiman or kept somewhere >> centrally so that we can all reference minimal requirements to >> keep boot images small? > > It's not been maintained the past 6 months because we've turned our > attention to the Distribution Constructor work that's part of > Caiman. It does similar things, but in a different way. As you've > seen, maintaining that list is way too much work for a product.
okay - the caiman distro constructor appears to be based on the new and fancy IPS package infrastructure .. but how are these packages maintained (pkg.opensolaris.org i see), and how do they map to the SUNWC metaclusters in the clustertocs on the various distributions? in other words - if i wanted to build a live distribution based off a particular nevada build - who tracks the minimal required packages for an install .. in the past we'd use SUNWCreq and add metaclusters on top .. has somebody taken on an SVR4 -> IPS translator yet? fwiw - i just took to hacking up build_live_dvd to have proc_toc.pl process multiple metaclusters before it tsorts them, and redid most of the microroot creation for a project i'm working on .. in the distro constructor it looks like we've got a new microroot defined and are now creating compressed images for /etc /var as well as /opt and /usr which is nice .. how do we plan to deal with /lib /kernel and / platform? and how are we tracking necessary files for the microroot across distributions? --- .je
