Matt Williamson wrote:
Bill Rushmore wrote:
This might be a kind of crazy idea and I am not sure if it is even
possible. But couldn't a public flash http server be setup? So all
that would be needed would be an initial install CD. Then during then
install the necessary packages can be downloaded from the public flash
server(s)? Is this feasible? If it is I'll be happy to put in a RFE.
sounds totally feasible to me.
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/install/files/caiman_arch.pdf
alludes to flars
Yes, it's feasible. There's no reason to file an RFE, it's something
we're considering as evidenced by the link above.
One problem is that it's extra release-engineering work to produce the
flar's, yet doing so doesn't address upgrades (obviously quite important
to existing community users) unless we're also producing differential
archives (even more release-engineering work, and we would obviously
have limits on the combinations we'd product) or providing other means
of performing an upgrade without having to download everything. Flash
has some nice features and I'd like to use it more, but I'm not going to
get a lot of support for spending on infrastructure that addresses only
one piece of the lifecycle without a plan to leverage it into the rest.
We're not there yet.
Dave
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