Jyri Virkki wrote: > One annoying issue you'll hit (if pursuing this) is that zones won't > be aware of these packages installed via IPS on your S10. > > (http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=2550)
You mean that a package installed in the global zone won't be inherited into the non-global zones? If so, I think it is not a big problem. The user can always install the packages individually into each zone. I think that is better anyway because (1) the global zone can be minimized, (2) each individual zone can be minimized, (3) IPS packages can be managed independently in each zone. The disadvantage is that the sharing features of zones would not be exploited. IF the user wants Zones + IPS + sharing then they will need to wait for a release of IPS that fixes that bug. But, there are a lot of cases where that isn't necessary. If ZFS de-duplication were to be implemented then a lot of the motivation for inheriting packages from the global zone goes away--you would just install packages into each zone and the common (parts of) files would automatically be shared between all zones. Then non-global zones would only (have to) inherit the very few packages that must not differ from the global zone. - Brian _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
