Liane Praza wrote:
Wyllys Ingersoll wrote:
Liane Praza wrote:
...
While it's currently not a strict requirement for putback (though it
will be over the coming months, and the ON cteam is already asking
about it), if upgrade fails from one supported OpenSolaris release to
another, a bug is likely to wind its way through the opensolaris team
and back onto your plate.
It's a good thing to make a product that we ship externally regularly
work, and the best time to do that is at putback.
If yes, is there a page documenting the steps and procedures and
requirements that
a developer needs to make the transition?
The instructions are fairly simple. IPS doesn't run any postinstall
or class-action scripts during package add or upgrade time. So, you
don't convert to IPS so much as make things work without requiring
scripting in package context.
Tools available to you to make that happen:
- Users and groups are added by actions in the IPS manifests. You
don't need to worry about these today as the OpenSolaris distribution
team takes care of translating your additions to IPS package actions.
- Similarly, driver bindings are handled by actions in IPS manifests
and today are added by the OpenSolaris distribution team.
Does the above statement include updating the ACPI tables for x86
and running the "add_drv" command for packages that contain new device
drivers (sparc and x86) ?
add_drv, yes. new driver aliases, yes. ACPI tables, I'm not sure...
are those just the files that get dropped into place, or something else?
(i.e. how are they updated in SVR4?)
In an SVR4 package, they are usually updated in a postinstall script.
It involves adding an entry to /boot/solaris/devicedb/master
If a current SVr4 package already has postinstall scripts that do
those things but the OS dist. team has already converted those things
to IPS manifests for OpenSolaris, is there any additional work to be
done in the ON (SVR4) world to either remove the postinstalls
or ideally somehow integrate the IPS SMF manifest actions back into ON
so that the postinstall is not needed in either case?
No, sorry, you can't delete the SVR4 postinstalls for drivers. They go
away when we stop delivering SVR4 packages.
OK thanks, but is there anything I should do in those SVR4 packages today
to make them fit better with IPS down the road if all they are doing is
add_drv and/or updating ACPI?
-Wyllys
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