Danek Duvall wrote: > >> What is pkg_fmri? >> I checked the man pages in the repo, the slides from the summit, but >> couldn't make out what the term was meant. >> smf' already uses the term as "Fault Managed Resource Identifier". Is >> this term overloaded for pkg? >> > > It's all part of the same world -- think of an FMRI as representing a fault > boundary -- a system component which can, in some ways, be thought of as a > single unit, like a FRU would be in the hardware world. FMA and SMF > already use FMRIs, and now IPS does. > > This is interesting from a maintenance point of view. Software FRUs have been something we struggle with for some time. What is the minimum amount of "stuff" we can deliver to resolve a problem. The package FMRI being the fault boundary is absolutely the right thing. Would there ever be a case of faults propagating across a boundary (ie multiple packages needing to be delivered to resolve and issue). I think it is quite likely. Would there ever be a case of delivering only part of a package, as we do with patches now? I would rather we didn't.
Chris
