That's great and thanks for sharing the information. Is the infodoc available freely/publically by the way?
Ienup Dave Miner wrote at 11/29/06 07:49: > Ienup Sung wrote: > >> Kyle J. McDonald wrote at 11/28/06 14:09: >> >>>> Thanks for sharing the info, Kyle. It is indeed a bit unusual >>>> way to install and expand the system. If you could blog the detail and >>>> share the link, I think that will be an interesting info for whom >>>> want to do the same or similar. >>>> >>> >>> I can post the package add/deletes from my JS profile after I >>> reproduce it. >> >> >> That'll be wonderful information. There was some related activities >> called >> "minimization" but I'm not quite sure whether there was any conclusion on >> that. I cc'd opensolaris-discuss mailing list for possible comment from >> other folks on that. >> > > Sun's official position on minimization in Solaris 8 through 10 is > available to support customers as infodoc 86177. The recommendation > there is to start with a smaller metacluster and add packages, rather > than start larger and remove, so Kyle's actually done what we'd > recommend. The lack of maintainable package dependencies is an obvious > problem in attempting to support minimization and leaves us with many > issues such as he's reported in this thread. > > Dave
