*Synopsis*: SUNWcsd needs to package primordial symlinks
CR 6726586 changed on Apr 21 2010 by <User 1-39KXYN>
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*Change Request ID*: 6726586
*Synopsis*: SUNWcsd needs to package primordial symlinks
Product: solaris
Category: consolidation
Subcategory: os-net-misc
Type: Defect
Subtype:
Status: 6-Fix Understood
Substatus:
Priority: 3-Medium
Introduced In Release:
Introduced In Build:
Responsible Engineer:
Keywords: on_ips
=== *Description* ============================================================
For historical reasons, primordial /dev symlinks such as /dev/null are
created by SUNWcsd's postinstall script, rather than packaged. Given that
these symlinks are constant and do not encode any dynamic information such
as major/minor number, this is needless. While the postinstall approach
mostly works, it has two drawbacks:
1. BFU must be updated when a new primordial symlink needs to be
added (such as Clearview IPMP's /dev/ipmpstub) (Note that acr
does not process postinstall scripts, so it doesn't help.)
2. It is fundamentally incompatible with IPS, since IPS doesn't
use postinstall scripts.
*** (#1 of 1): 2008-07-17 00:30:43 GMT+00:00 <User 1-5Q-13476>
=== *Public Comments* ========================================================
A suggested fix for this issue in the IPS distro-import version of the
packages is attached to
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=5651
though it will need to be reworked into IPS manifest form once the ON-IPS
project integrates.
*** (#1 of 3): 2010-02-17 02:13:00 GMT+00:00 <User 1-5Q-1267>
To be clear, this bug is with respect to the primordial links traditionally
created by SUNWcsd's postinstall script. It's not meant to deal with all of
the links created by the various devfsadm link generators which is what DC
requires.
*** (#2 of 3): 2010-04-21 05:58:04 GMT+00:00 <User 1-5Q-13979>
According to Bugzilla bug 10985, it seems that for purposes of installation
media
created by Distribution Constructor, set of SUNWcsd primordial devlinks along
with
couple of additional ones should allow the installers boot to the point when
devsfadm
is invoked within install environment to fully populate /dev tree.
Following additional devlinks were identified when evaluating bug 10985 as
needed to
boot install media:
/dev/lofictl
/dev/kbd
/dev/cryptoadm
There might be others, as things might have changed since then.
Those links are perhaps specific to boot of installation media (at least lofictl
and kbd). We could either enhance DC to manually generate devlinks with are
install
media specific or we could try to run devfsadm earlier during boot of install
media,
so that those links are available by the time they are needed.
*** (#3 of 3): 2010-04-21 06:24:21 GMT+00:00 <User 1-39KXYN>
=== *Workaround* =============================================================
=== *Additional Details* =====================================================
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Fix Affects Documentation: No
Fix Affects Localization: No
=== *History* ================================================================
Date Submitted: 2008-07-17 00:30:42 GMT+00:00
Submitted By: <User 1-5Q-13476>
Status Changed Date Updated Updated By
6-Fix Understood 2008-07-17 01:05:37 GMT+00:00 <User 1-5Q-13476>
=== *Service Request* ========================================================
Impact: Significant
Functionality: Secondary
Severity: 3
Product Name: solaris
Product Release: solaris_nevada
Product Build:
Operating System: solaris_nevada
Hardware: generic
Submitted Date: 2008-07-17 00:30:43 GMT+00:00
=== *Service Request* ========================================================
Impact: Significant
Functionality: Primary
Severity: 2
Product Name: solaris
Product Release: solaris_nevada
Product Build: snv_137
Operating System: snv_137
Hardware: generic
Submitted Date: 2010-04-20 20:47:23 GMT+00:00
=== *Multiple Release (MR) Cluster* - 0 ======================================
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