Sarah Jelinek wrote: > Hi Jean, >>> (e.g. /etc/app.conf) don't get >>> overwritten via an update. >>> >>> Having said that, it wasn't clear to me in your original >>> posting that we would be allowing both cpio install and >>> collection selection simultaneously. Our chat with Glynn >>> resulted in that this wasn't explicitly a requirement; >>> providing a choice of either was sufficient. Have we >>> decided otherwise? >> Part of this discussion is to make a definite decision. Discussion >> with both Ginnie and Sanjay >> led to the "install the liveCD bits in the normal (cpio) way and then >> customize using IPS" >> proposal. This allows a base set of bits to be installed quickly and >> yet the user can also customize their >> software. > > I don't think it matters how we get there(cpio+IPS, or all IPS), we > need to look at this as "what user experience are we providing with > this feature"? Seems to me Frank has indicated in his mockup that we > want the user to be able to customize their software(additional > software to be downloaded). In my mind this means we start with the > software on the media they are using, and customize it to get to where > they want with their selections. That would be the way the user would > expect it to work as well, right? Assuming this is the user experience > we want to provide and agree on, then we can do it any way underneath > we want. Could be cpio + ips adds/removes. Could be all IPS.
One more thing to keep in mind. The text installer will need to use the IPS functionality added/modified in any lower level libraries as well since the focus of that project has shifted from media installation to IPS. The reason I bring this up is that the current cpio transfer module implementation is very tightly coupled with the format of the liveCD. The text installer media on SPARC isn't likely to be the same as the liveCD so using the transfer module for cpio transfer of the media won't work without changes. We have support in the transfer module for IPS already, so we need to be sure that we account for the fact that the text installer on SPARC will likely need to install from media differently. We have a couple of choices(that I can see at this time): 1) modify transfer module to do cpio in a more generic way to support more media layouts 2) create new functions to discover the pkgs included on the booted media so that we can use that list to install the core, and then customize from there. thanks, sarah
