On 02/17/10 02:13 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: > On 02/17/10 01:08 PM, Dave Miner wrote: >> On 02/17/10 02:01 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: >>> On 02/12/10 04:11 PM, Dave Miner wrote: >>>> As you may recall, we reviewed a first draft of this design in >>>> December/early January. I've finally published a revision which >>>> addresses the comments I received, primarily from Jan and Ethan. >>>> >>>> While not exactly frozen, implementation work is underway based on this >>>> design so any remaining issues should be raised soon to allow the best >>>> chance to address them. >>>> >>>> http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+caiman/AI+Image+Management >>> >>> "We propose to publish the AI boot image content into the pkg(5) >>> repository as the package image/autoinstall...The Distribution >>> Constructor will be extended to provide automatic publication of the >>> images to a pkg repository if specified in the construction manifest." >>> >>> By publication of images, I'm assuming you mean a special package that >>> essentially contains the list of packages that were in the original AI >>> or Distribution Constructor manifest? >>> >> >> It's a package that contains the actual, processed boot image. > > Will that package contain files that are already in other packages in > the same repository? >
Yes, to some extent, but primarily not. You can take a look at an existing AI ISO image to see what it would essentially contain, as it's basically just a pkgsend of that structure. > If you intend to install the image using that package, it is also > intended that packages be installed on top of that image? > No. Dave
