If you don't use live images (live-CD, Text-Installer or
Automated-Installer) or build them using bits from a child of the
slim_source gate, this message probably won't be interesting to you...
My push to B141 of slim_source of
15906 Changes to live image services for copy of
/var/pkg to RW area on demand
changes when and how the /var/pkg tree gets copied to a RW area of the
system. Instead of copying unconditionally at boot time, Driver-Update
(and the Device Driver Utility (DDU) in particular) now copy /var/pkg
only when necessary.
Changes you will see as a user:
- Low-memory systems are better accommodated. Memory usage
will no longer be impacted by Driver-Update features
(introduced in B140), when those features are not used.
(Additional memory will be used only when the pkg(5)
utility is needed.) The boot_archive will also be
slightly smaller.
- The service which copies /var/pkg to /tmp/pkg at boot
time is gone.
What this means for live-image builders using bits directly from a
slim_source gate (until RE releases B141):
- This is part of a two-part fix. The other part will come
from the DDU team. Until that DDU part surfaces as part
of the B141 RE delivery or B141 public repository,
slim_source bits will be out of sync with the DDU bits.
Have your build manifest temporarily pull B141 DDU
packages from indiana-build.central (apologies to
external users) instead of from your normal repository by
setting up indiana-build.central as a "higher-ranked",
more preemptive repository than your normal one. Use
port 8100 on indiana-build for X86, port 8101 for SPARC.
If you don't do this for your build, then calls made to pkg(5) in the
resulting image, by the DDU or any other means, will fail. This is not
a problem if:
- For AI images, you don't plan on using <searchall> or
manually specifying a P5I file inside <ai_add_drivers>
tags of an AI client manifest.
- For text-install images, you don't select the "Install
Additional Drivers" option on the start menu.
- For live-CD images, you don't install IPS packages via
the DDU.
Thanks,
Jack Schwartz
Solaris Install
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