> You didn't mention system management at all. How is > the system, or even better, a whole farm of such > systems, going to be managed? > > Is the build going to have a fully populated > /var/sadm/install/contents? Will all the files be > accounted for? Will `pkgadd` and related commands > work? Will the build itself be delivered as > packages? System V packages?
As long as what they do isn't inherently incompatible with the existing way of doing such things (or really with any other way of doing things that could presently be used as an alternative), what difference does it make? I would think that appliances would most often use something like a flash image for installation, so that a fat installer wouldn't have to run on the appliances themselves. As to whether any package management scheme was needed (rather than say just replacing individual files, running a script as needed to edit/merge changes, and maybe keeping a tripwire-like checksum or digest database (not on the appliance probably)), that's likely up to the distribution. Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't really see so much a standard installation option to produce an appliance-level ultra-minimized Solaris as I see providing the tools and know-how so that distros that are suitably minimized can be built. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
