On 07/12/10 07:52 AM, Sarah Jelinek wrote:


On 07/ 9/10 02:06 PM, [email protected] wrote:
On 07/ 9/10 12:11 PM, Alok Aggarwal wrote:
Jean: See below for a transfer related comment.

On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, Sarah Jelinek wrote:

On 07/ 8/10 07:24 PM, Alok Aggarwal wrote:
Hi Sarah,

A few things that still need to be changed -

a) GRUB menu customization section from dc_spec.
   I do realize that GRUB2 is going to change
   some things in this area but still we need a
   way to specify custom grub menu entries.

I actually deliberately didn't include these in the schema. I thought that perhaps this was better done as an argument or set of arguments to the appropriate checkpoint. Does this seem like it would work for DC?

We could do it as arguments but I think readability would
take a hit in doing that.

Considering that multiple GRUB menu entries can be specified
and each of them span multiple lines, it could get somewhat
complicated.

b) iso sort file specification from the dc_spec

ok, will add.

c) dc_instance should have an additional attribute
   along the lines of "incremental_media(true|false)"
   to support fixing defect 6794

I have this in the latest dc.dtd. I haven't pushed it yet, but it is there.

d) Are primary_source/secondary_source in the dc_spec
   the equivalent of the current post_install_repo_default_authority
   and addl_authority?

yes...these are post install definitions. I have renamed this though in response to Dave's comments on these. But, the use of them in DC remains as a post install repo setting.

   If so, I think it would be better to abstract
   these out as a software_spec section. The reason
   for this is - DC is going to leverage the transfer
   module to set the ips attributes. So, even if it
   is specified in the dc_spec section, DC internally
   will have to instantiate the appropriate Transfer
   class, retrieve the ips attributes from the dc_spec
   section and set them in the Transfer object.

   Seems like it woul be just be simpler to abstract them
   out as a software_spec action.

It is a software_spec element. I am not sure what you mean by making it a software_spec attribute. Can you clarify?

What I'm proposing is - let's take the post_install_rep
and addl_authority out of the dc_spec section for the
above reasons.

Instead, encapsulate it as -

<software_spec name="set_ips_attributes">
<primary_source>
<publisher name="xxx">
<origin name="yyy"></origin>
<pub_mirror name="zzz"></pub_mirror>
</publisher>
</primary_source>
<secondary_source>
<publisher name="aaa">
<origin name="bbb"></origin>
</publisher>
</secondary_source>
<software action="noinstall" type="ips">
</software>
</software_spec>

Could something like this be done?
I believe that's what the spec has. I wrote up some other thoughts on this but forgot to send them. You should see that message soon.



e) Where do IPS attributes such as, say, generate_ips_search_index,
   get specified in the DC manifest?

Good question.. I would think that they would be in the software_spec, image element as an attribute on that. Would this work?

That should work. Jean, do you agree?
I think so. Might also be a good place to put the cpio args if decide to put them in here. Can someone give me an example of what they are thinking it would look like?

It would look something like this:

<software_spec>
<destination>
<image ips_search_index="true">
</destination>
<software>
      ...
</software>
<software_spec>

The idea is that the generation of the ips search index is an attribute on the IPS image we are creating as part of the DC process.
I believe that should work. Thanks

Jean


thanks,
sarah
*****

Jean

Another thing I forgot to mention is that - for sparc
images, we need a section that indicates which files
shouldn't be fiocompress'd. I didn't notice such an entity
in the schema. Could it be added?

Thanks,
Alok



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