On 04/30/10 09:12 AM, Rainer Orth wrote:
I've recently started to use AI for minimized automated installations,
and after some experimentation on my own (and filing tons of package
dependency bugs discovered in the process) came across the OpenSolaris
Base Profile Metapackages spec (v0.14). Since this is probably of
interest to both the JeOS project and the Caiman and IPS projects, I'm
posting to all three lists. Feel free to cut down if this is
inappropriate.
A couple of notes about the referenced document[1].
First, the JeOS project undertook it since it was an area of interest
for their goals. Caiman and pkg have taken the position that we'd look
at this once we'd done refactoring in the core packages, since there
presently is a hairball around SUNWcs that makes true minimization
somewhat ineffective. I'm hoping we'll get to that work soon.
Second, the goals of that document were not precisely for pure
minimization. As noted in 2.1.1, it's meant to define a minimal
*supported* installation, per the terms of Sun's (now Oracle's) support
policies. Hence some of your comments later on, which rightly note that
it reflects some business requirements rather than purely technical
ones. Oracle's OpenSolaris-based products and other community efforts
are likely to diverge here, so I think it'll be important to make clear
the goals of any work we do so that there isn't a misunderstanding.
Dave
[1]
http://cr.opensolaris.org/%7eckamps/profiles/osol-base-install-profile.pdf
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