On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Karen Tung wrote:
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.
The boot_archive isn't very different across the
various media types with the differences being:
http://cr.opensolaris.org/~aalok/slim.vs.text
http://cr.opensolaris.org/~aalok/slim.vs.ai
As you can see we can normalize the contents to
be the same across the media types without much
impact on the boot_archive size.
* 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.
As Dave pointed out earlier, this is the main issue
that needs to be worked out with tagging the boot_archive
contents in some way in pkg(5). We need to work out an
overall architecture wrt how the boot_archive contents
are going to be maintained and evolved over time; and
also provide guidelines to the broader Solaris community
on what comprises a boot_archive.
Since this is more of an architectural issue and not
necessarily specific to DC, I am leaning towards not
pursuing it as part of the DC/CUD project.
Instead, for ease of maintainability I'm going to go
with the xinclude approach that Dermot outlined earlier
till the time we come up with the pkg tagging.
Thanks,
Alok
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