On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Dave Miner wrote:
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
This is probably an even crazier suggestion given the current state of
things, but would it help if you could recruit some of us community
members to help with release-engineering work or any of this in general?
Bill
rushmores.net
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