Hi Kristina,

On 13/06/2011 20:15, Kristina Tripp wrote:
> Thanks for the review.  Comments inline
> 
> On 06/ 9/11 02:01 AM, Darren Kenny wrote:
>> Hi Kristina,
>>
>> Apologies for not getting to this sooner, it's code I'm not familiar with in
>> any way.
>>
>> Overall things are looking good, but I do have some questions/comments:
>>
>> - In conv.py:
>>
>>   - The method __create_any_boot_disk() doesn't appear to be of any use,
>>     should it be still there? Lines 1710-1716 suggest that something should 
>> be
>>     done.
> Removed
>>   - In __add_device, line 705-708, you appear to be creating a diskname node
>>     in-line rather than using the method __create_diskname_node(), why not 
>> use
>>     the method?
>>
>>   - In __add_device, line 709, you seem to add a partition, but this should
>>     only be done for an x86 based profile, if it's SPARC based the generated
>>     manifest will fail, on SPARC slices are direct children of the <disk>
>>     node. While the DTD will validate, AI itself will fail.
> Interesting.  This isn't something I was aware of and a problem since we
> typically have no notion of what platform the system is intended for. A few of
> the Jumpstart keywords are targeted for are for sparc or x86 and I can 
> certainly
> address it when I have a notion of the architure of the system.  But  it's
> possible to generate a Jumpstart profile that requires me to generate a disk
> entries  for the root ZFS pool that I'll have no notion of the architecture.
> 
> Are there any options available to me?

I've sent an e-mail to caiman-discuss about this issue, to see what other people
think is a reasonable approach for handling this in AI.

I could add a specific exception on SPARC to not fail, but just ignore things
for this specific case, or I could ad a more general "ignore all partitions".

> 
> If your agreeable I'll write a CR to address this since this is going to 
> require
> some large changes if there is no common way to make this work for both
> platforms.  Instead of
> trying to fold this into this current set of changes.

I think a separate CR would be fine - since it's looking like the best way to
resolve this would be to change AI's behaviour.

> 
>>     If you've not done it already, it would really be worth running the
>>     generated XML manifests, on snv_167+, through a call to:
>>
>>       auto-install -i -m <manifest>
>>
>>     The -i will stop before doing anything destructive, of course this would
>>     also assume that the machine has the right devices.
>>
>>     Or alternatively, in the tests, you could take a look at the
>>     $SRC/cmd/auto-install/test/test_target_selection_*.py and mimic what it
>>     does in calling select_targets, passing your XML to it to ensure that it
>>     will get through that validation at least.
> We currently validate the manifests and sc profiles as part of the conversion
> process.
> All the unit tests all perform validation of the generated xml code.
> 
> The current validation occurs via the ManifestParser.   Ethan did question 
> whether
> we wanted to do the validation against the image associated with a service.  
> This may be desirable since then I could use the validation code used by
> installadm.  The ManifestParser code base is causing me problems on the 
> backport
> since it wants to pull in all the target/libbe
> code.
> 

Maybe you need to also set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the image's libraries
directory to pick up the image's libbe? Would that work?

>>   - Similarly in __valid_to_add_slice(), line 729, you assume that a 
>> partition
>>     should always be present if specifying a slice, that is not true on 
>> SPARC.
> Ok.  Discussed above
>>   - Lines 1249-1257, are these commented lines needed or can they be removed?
> Removed

Thanks,

Darren.

>> Thanks,
>>
>> Darren.
>>
>>
>> On 06/06/2011 15:01, Kristina Tripp wrote:
>>> I still need at least two volunteers to do a review for the following.  I'm 
>>> out
>>> of the office next week Jun 9th and 10th so I'd appreciate getting this 
>>> into the
>>> tree before then.  The webrev has been updated to reflect a change from the 
>>> tech
>>> writer that js2ai(1) be moved to js2ai(1m).
>>>
>>> Webrev
>>> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~enpointe/cr_7021883/
>>>
>>> 7021883 <http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7021883>
>> js2ai needs to be updated to work with the new target DTD
>>> 7040753 <http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7040753>
>> js2ai specifying -p with long path name failure
>>> 7044397 <http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7044397>
>> js2ai update to support SC Profile changes made in svn_164
>>> 7050992 <http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7050992>
>> js2ai move man page from js2ai(1) to js2ai(1m)
>>>
>>>
>>> Testing:
>>> Most of the testing for this product still relies on the unit tests and 
>>> running
>>> against some known jumpstart configuration profiles and ensuring the 
>>> converted
>>> profiles have no validation errors.  The unit test code coverage is 80%+ 
>>> for all
>>> files.
>>>
>>> There is still a need to test js2ai by running it against some Jumpstart
>>> profiles and doing some installs based on the files created by js2ai.  
>>> However,
>>> I haven't been able to get a AI Server running with all the proper bits so 
>>> this
>>> work will need to occur at a latter time period.
>>> --
>>>
>>> <http://www.oracle.com/><http://www.oracle.com/>
>>> *Kristina Tripp, Senior Software Engineer*
>>> OracleRevenue Product Engineering
>>> 500 Eldorado Blvd, MS UBRM05-171
>>> Broomfield, CO, 80021
>>> Office: 303-272-8655
>>> Email: [email protected]
>>>
>>> Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect 
>>> the
>>> environment
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> caiman-discuss mailing list
>>> [email protected]
>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> <http://www.oracle.com/><http://www.oracle.com/>
> *Kristina Tripp, Senior Software Engineer*
> OracleRevenue Product Engineering
> 500 Eldorado Blvd, MS UBRM05-171
> Broomfield, CO, 80021
> Office: 303-272-8655
> Email: [email protected]
> 
> Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the
> environment
> 
_______________________________________________
caiman-discuss mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss

Reply via email to