Darren:
I believe the proposal is to move the contents to an existing package
that had the proper SUNW_PKGTYPE=root and SUNW_PKG_HOLLOW=false.
I looked around and SUNWcsr fits the description. However, before we
discuss moving things to SUNWcsr. It will be better for the Zones team
to discuss whether this is approriate and how to move this forward.
If this is for S10 Update 4, I do not see problem with upgrade as long
as the proper *ph files are delivered to handle upgrade if contents were
moved to a different package.
Darren J Moffat wrote:
> 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 :-)
>
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