Dave Miner wrote: > Erik Nordmark wrote: >> >> The IP Instances part of Crossbow will need to make all of the content >> in the SUNWcnetr and SUNWipfr packages available in the non-global zones. >> >> One possible way to do that is to change the SUNW_PKG_HOLLOW attribute >> for those packages. > > You can't do that in a patch, generally. Rejuvenation would perhaps be > a workaround, but we try not to do that. > >> Another possible way would be to move all those files to some other >> packages that are not hollow (and effectively leave the above packages >> as empty.) >> > > Correct. > >> Given that this is targeting a Solaris 10 update, what is the least >> painful and most correct way to handle this? >> > > The latter is your preferred option for an update because of the patch > creation that it implies. It's probably somewhat preferable in the case > of SUNWcnetr, because it's basically a grab bag at present, but it's > probably less appetizing in the case of SUNWipfr.
But doesn't creating a new package just move the problem somewhere else, ie the problem of creating a new package in a patch. Also this seems really broken that the package name would need to change because stuff that wasn't previously in a zone now needs to be. Personally I think the whole zones and package boundaries things needs a big rething. I find it really ironic that Linux branded zones have none of these problems :-) -- Darren J Moffat
