I really like this idea too, but got a couple questions/comments:
* Since different images types needs a few specialized things in the
root archive
for booting the image in addition to the "common" list of things, would
we need to
tag items by image type? Or we have the "common root archive" tag which
most
root archive contents would belong, and then, have image specific tags
for the few
things that differs between the image types.
* Since groups outside of the install team might or might not be
familiar with
how all the different images and installers work, we would need a way to
review what new items are added to the root archive to prevent it from
getting too big. We also need a way to easily tell what gets removed from
the root archive, in case that removal breaks things.
Thanks,
--Karen
On 09/09/10 09:39, Darren Kenny wrote:
I really like that idea since it puts the onus on the owners of the files to
make the decision on what's included it not.
Darren
"Dave Miner"<[email protected]> wrote:
On 09/ 8/10 06:24 PM, Alok Aggarwal wrote:
The DC manifests for the various x86 media types currently
have a section for boot_archive_contents that defines
what gets included in the x86 boot_archive.
Each of these manifests (slim_cd_x86.xml, all_lang_slim_cd_x86.xml,
text_mode_x86.xml and ai_x86_image.xml) has a such a section.
The contents of this section are more or less the same across
these manifests[1].
As we're re-writing DC[2], it make sense to re-evaluate whether
the boot_archive_contents can be factored out into a common file
that can then be referenced in each of the various manifests.
Another avenue to explore is to not have this list at all in the
manifest; instead, tag those objects in the packages as they're
published by the consolidations with some appropriate attribute. Then
DC's checkpoint that constructs the boot archive could just use pkg
search to compile the list of files and directories to transfer.
Dave
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