On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 06:40:31PM -0400, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 13:46 -0700, Stephen Hahn wrote: > > The current prototype can convert SysV packages to the new form, > > recognizing resources it has mechanisms for (and dropping the > > scripting). > > If scripting is completely discarded, this sounds more like a transition > aid rather than a true conversion.
It *is* a prototype. We plan on converting the WOS by hand. It's the packages outside Solaris that are more interesting. I believe that Stephen has mentioned in some venue that there are multiple ways to transition, and while we don't have the details worked out yet (concentrating on the immediate Indiana release means it's not at the top of our to-do lists), it's obviously something we'll have to cover and provide useful mechanisms for people to use. We know we can't change the world overnight. > Seems like we might get most of the benefit without inflicting the > transition pain on others if we changed our packages to avoid use of > scripting without eliminating the capability entirely. We are. By virtue of repackaging them in the new system. :) If you're proposing modifying the way our current SysV install works to remove all use of scripting, feel free to dive down that rathole and let us know if it's time well spent. ;-) Danek
