John Levon wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:17:24AM -0400, Dave Miner wrote:
> 
>>> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~johnlev/osol-xvm-vnc/
>> It would be helpful to have something in the bug outlining the design of 
>> the fix
> 
> Fixed, sorry.
> 
>> , but I'm fairly sure this is incomplete, as the set of services 
>> enabled on the CD is governed by a profile (generic_live.xml) delivered 
>> in and applied by the distro constructor.
> 
> I don't think is necessary if the service is normally enabled? It
> certainly tested OK, but maybe I'm missing something here.
> 

My mistake, we do apply generic_limited_net before that one, so yeah, 
it'll be OK.

>> It would seemingly be simpler to use a dependent clause in 
>> vnc-config.xml, which would avoid the need to modify gdm.xml and hence 
>> the new import file and that change to SUNWfixes.
> 
> I'm not convinced - this isn't the intended use of "dependent" and I
> don't think it's right to (ab)use it just to avoid having a copy of
> gdm.xml. It would also leave a funny setup when upgrading to a Nevada
> release that includes these changes (which I do plan).
> 

I disagree that it's not an intended use, but I don't feel strongly 
enough to care since you're already at this point.  The only difference 
that results is a dependent property in the repository for your new 
service, which doesn't strike me as funny.

>> I don't believe you should be changing 100a/slim_cluster; 
>> 98/i386/SUNWxvmipa also shouldn't be changed, but instead copied into 
>> 101 and updated.
> 
> These changes fix a bug in 98 onwards: SUNWxvmipa is dependent on
> SUNWxvmdom to work. Any release that doesn't have this fix is broken.
> If you'd prefer I can leave 98-100a in the broken state, but it didn't
> make sense to me to go to extra effort for this?
> 

With that explanation I'm OK.

Dave

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