2008/6/11 John Plocher <John.Plocher at sun.com>: > Garrett D'Amore wrote: >> I also remain unfond of the approach of turning a bunch of key programs >> in /usr/bin into isaexec() links. While the isaexec() approach was not >> unreasonable for a few utilities that aren't run frequently like >> prtconf, I don't think the solution scales well. > > > Maybe there is an opportunity to leverage IPS here - have it install the > correct binaries from the repo (32, 64, x64, SPARC, Power, ARM...) based > on the isaexec-abilities of the target platform. > > (i.e., don't do isaexec() at runtime, do it at install time :-)
I can already hear the complaints from people using nfs mounted binaries... :-) -- Shawn Walker
