On 05/12/10 14:48, Neal Pollack wrote: > > On 5/12/2010 11:17 AM, Mark Haywood wrote: >>> >>> - Where are NIS and LDAP? Or are they not needed by this part of >>> the installation process? >> >> They are missing. But as of yet there has been no requirement for >> their support. > > I am puzzled about that. An installer for consumer laptops might only > need dns. > But an installer for 1300 Solaris engineers and many large corp I.T. > customers > most certainly needs a way to set up NIS and/or LDAP during install. > Perhaps I am biased, but it all seems rather obvious, like one of the > first top ten > requirements?
It wouldn't surprise me that the environment described is "enough" for basic installation, even in an environment that uses NIS/LDAP. It looks like the parameters being set are _just_ for the install process itself, and a different configuration will be used on the installed system. (Much as it is with classic Solaris; the network install environment is quite a bit different from the actual run-time environment.) But it's hard to tell. And my main concern is that a very narrow focus here will result in great future pain. We've seen that before with things like /etc/hostname.*. It's all too easy to focus on hard-wired Ethernet interfaces (designing for "le0" and not much else), and end up with something that's just impossible to extend meaningfully. I also share the concerns of the other posters (Rich, maybe?), who rightly noted that it's odd to have "special" configuration for one mode, and "other" configuration otherwise -- e.g., using /etc/resolv.conf in most cases, but using special SMF parameters to configure DNS in other cases. There really ought to be just one way to express things, because the split will just cause confusion and bugs in the future. That split (or duplication of interfaces), I think, is architectural. > Where have requirements been collected from for the installer features, > or what is the target audience for the installer if no requirements were > collected? At least as much as it affects the intended architecture, I think this is needed as reference material for this case. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ opensolaris-arc mailing list [email protected]
