So, what is the final decision here? What I could understand from the previous discussions is that, miniroot is going to change in the future. So, are we giving some solutions to customer, who already have hit this problem? Will this solution come as a patch or permanent fix or a workaround?
And regarding the fix, I have one suggestion (which actually Dave Miner also suggested sometime back). Take the case of fs-usr, which is delivered by both SUNWsibi and SUNWcsr. Both are having different contents. Now, add code to this fs-usr to sense where it is executing. If it is in miniroot, just exit. Else, continue. But, how to sense where it is executing? Is there any environment variable or command to know that, it is executing in miniroot? We can do this for all those scripts which are part of miniroot and also delivered by some other package (with different content). And this could be a long term fix, till the time miniroot is redisigned. -Narendra On 10/6/06, Angela Byrne - Solaris Sustaining <angela.byrne at sun.com> wrote: > > Channing also has a concern here:- > > 119081-28 SunOS 5.10: CD-ROM Install Boot Image Patch > > 119081-28 cannot install until 118855-28 is installed. > > 119081-28 REQUIRES 122539-06 and the only way to satisfy this > is for a customer to install 118855-28. > > This is due to 118855-28 obsoleting 122539-06 and 122539-06 > itself cannot be released and is marked as BAD. > > I will let Channing comment further. > > Angela > > > > Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote: > >> I was wondering if there are any other reasons customers patch the > >> miniroot besides driver updates. Obviously they get other updates with > >> the patches they are using, but I believe in general it is used for > >> device updates, correct? If so, does the ITU process that we offer > >> during install not suffice for this? In particular if this feature was > >> enhanced to be more usable and more automated and could find drivers > >> without user intervention? > > > > It's not that simple; with all the new PCI/PCI-express support and > > bugs fixes in that area (Such as the HP hang, etc), customers generally > > need to install the main kernel patches in the miniroot. > > > > And if the kernel jumbo patch needs to go in, well, that pretty much > > settles it and arguing over whether all or some patches are needed is > > then purely acedemic. > > > > Casper > > > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss > -- Warm Regards, ??????? ??????.???.??? (S.S.Narendra Kumar) Visit my blogs at: http://ssnarendrakumar.blogspot.com/ http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/ssnkumar ___ ___ __ _ / __/ / __/ / | / / _\ \ _ \ \ / /| |/ / \___/ \___/ /_/ |__/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/attachments/20061010/2af6cb04/attachment.html>
