On Tue 10 Feb 2009 at 01:39PM, Dan Price wrote:
> On Mon 09 Feb 2009 at 07:45PM, Shawn Walker wrote:
> > Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> > > The functionality in the following post about Synaptic sounds like an
> > > excellent idea for reinstalling or cloning systems - being able to save
> > > a list of installed packages and then import the list to reinstall them.
> > >
> > > They describe a GUI implementation, which the Package Manager GUI should
> > > be able to imitate, but CLI interfaces would be nice too. Is this
> > > already
> > > in the plans? (Or already in the product and I've just not noticed?)
> >
> > The distribution constructor is the right tool for reinstalling or
> > cloning systems and I believe this particular case is planned to be
> > handled at some point in the future.
>
> Perhaps for cloning systems, but I strongly believe that we need this
> functionality. It's key for enterprises. I've mentioned this RFE
> several times to several people on the team but I don't think an RFE is
> filed.
>
> Without looking at the synaptic thing (intentionally) here is a sketch of
> what I'd like:
>
...
I forgot to mention: the same list format should be usable by zones to
implement "update-on-attach dry-run"-- i.e., given zone X on system A,
and system B, tell me whether it's OK to slide zone X over to B, or if
system B needs any updates.
I'll dump this all into an RFE.
-dp
--
Daniel Price, Solaris Kernel Engineering http://blogs.sun.com/dp
_______________________________________________
pkg-discuss mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
