Hi Alok.

On 09/29/10 01:36 PM, Alok Aggarwal wrote:
The current implementation of DC includes a section in
the SPARC DC manifests to specify the files that are to be
left uncompressed in the boot_archive. The entries
look like this:

<base_include type="file" fiocompress="false">etc/path_to_inst</base_include>

In the new AI/DC schema/manifest, there isn't a specific
section to describe the boot_archive and thus no default
place to put information like the above in the manifest.

So, we have a couple of choices:

a) Specify the files to be left uncompressed as an argument
   to the checkpoint that will consume this list. The following
   would be added to [1]:

<kwargs>
<arg name="uncompressed_files">file1, file2, file3</arg>
</kwargs>

b) Add a section for uncompressed files to the distro_spec section
   of the manifest [2].

The advantage to (a) is that it makes it obvious as to which
checkpoint consumes that information whereas (b) sort of
obfuscates it. The disadvantage to (a) is that it can get
sort of clunky with line wraps or whatnot if the uncompressed files list becomes large.

Which option do people prefer?
IIRC, XML doesn't look at white space. If this is so, you can still use option A (which I prefer) and still have files listed on their own line. Something like this:

<kwargs>
<arg name="uncompressed_files">
                file1
                file2
                file3
</arg>
</kwargs>

... and even if XML does look at white space, you can still parse the list you get from XML into individual words (files).

    Thanks,
    Jack

Thanks,
Alok

[1]
http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/caiman/cud_dc/usr/src/cmd/distro_const/manifest/dc_text_sparc.xml#596

[2]
http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/caiman/cud_dc/usr/src/cmd/distro_const/manifest/dc_text_sparc.xml#5

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