On 12/11/06, Kyle McDonald <kjmcdonald at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I'm really trying to move this discussion on the the larger issue, and
> away from the rmvolmgr package specifically - (neither it nor it's
> developers are being criticized - at least that's not my intention.)
>
> I know that the pkg infrastructure in place isn't very sophisticated. But
> even with what is in place it seems that more could be done to minimize the
> 'unused' files from being installed.
>
> I would think just making more (smaller) packages with a finer
> granularity, would go a long way to improving this situation.
>
Ugh. We already have far too many packages that have no real value in being
separate packages.
What we do need is to apply much more thought to the package boundaries so
they actually make sense.
One more example of how bad it's getting:
On an S10U3 system:
% ldd /usr/sbin/share
libc.so.1 => /lib/libc.so.1
libm.so.2 => /lib/libm.so.2
/platform/SUNW,Sun-Blade-1500/lib/libc_psr.so.1
On an snv_53 system:
% ldd /usr/sbin/share
libshare.so.1 => /usr/lib/libshare.so.1
libscf.so.1 => /lib/libscf.so.1
libsecdb.so.1 => /lib/libsecdb.so.1
libumem.so.1 => /lib/libumem.so.1
libxml2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
libc.so.1 => /lib/libc.so.1
libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1
libzfs.so.1 => /lib/libzfs.so.1
libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1
libfsmgt.so.1 => (file not found)
libuutil.so.1 => /lib/libuutil.so.1
libpthread.so.1 => /lib/libpthread.so.1
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1
libm.so.2 => /lib/libm.so.2
libsocket.so.1 => /lib/libsocket.so.1
libmp.so.2 => /lib/libmp.so.2
libmd.so.1 => /lib/libmd.so.1
libdevinfo.so.1 => /lib/libdevinfo.so.1
libdevid.so.1 => /lib/libdevid.so.1
libgen.so.1 => /lib/libgen.so.1
libnvpair.so.1 => /lib/libnvpair.so.1
libsec.so.1 => /lib/libsec.so.1
libavl.so.1 => /lib/libavl.so.1
/platform/SUNW,Ultra-60/lib/libc_psr.so.1
/platform/SUNW,Ultra-60/lib/libmd_psr.so.1
Now that's just crazy. Not just the length of the list (much of which
is dragged in along with libzfs), but the fact that a command in SUNWcsu
has dependencies on files well outside core Solaris. The missing
library there is from some WBEM package. There's no way I should have
to start installing random bits of WBEM to make share work. And the
solution isn't to put libfsmgt into a separate package, it's to move it
into SUNWcsl. (Hopefully this is what fixing bugid 6496726 will do.)
--
-Peter Tribble
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
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