Hi Nick, In the Build section, you talk about send_ips being a replacement for build_cds for opensolaris. As such I don't think there's a need for a new option to nbuild, we would just need to modify the code and change the description of the "-b" option to indicate that it generates installable images. It seems to me we'd also need something equivalent to jas.dvdimage.ksh, to tell send_ips what IPS directories to process. And perhaps we'd also need to use the packages archive subdir to distinguish between non-debug and debug manifests.
The value add of build_cds is that it generates a combined CD/DVD image from several built workspaces. I'm not sure if an equivalent facility is necessary for IPS. If not, you could just have a new make rule to perform send_ips, and not bother with the build_cds replacement. Otherwise, looks good. Thanks Jonathan Nicholas Solter wrote: > Hi Thorsten, Jonathan, Ed, and anyone else who's interested, > > Here's a proposal for the build changes to generate IPS packages instead > of system V packages when appropriate in the cluster build. > > http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/ColoradoIPSBuild > > Open questions are in red. Comments welcome. > > Thanks, > Nick
