Shawn Walker wrote:
> On 04/20/10 12:23 PM, Adam Leventhal wrote:
>> Hey Dave,
>>
>>>> Was there any thought given to how one would generate an install for
>>>> a 32-bit only system? Conversely, could one build an install image
>>>> that was only designed to boot 64-bit? This could be useful, for
>>>> example, to minimize the size of a netboot image.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Faceting package contents as 32- vs. 64-bit should be most of the
>>> work, followed by expressing that facet into the installation process.
>>
>> It sounds like you're suggesting that this would require some
>> modification to the manifests, is that right? Can you provide some
>> examples of either how this has been done or how it could be done?
> 
> Facets, although now implemented, haven't been used just yet in our
> packages.  I believe that was intended to happen during package
> refactoring.

For background on the facet design, see:
   http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/pkg/gate/doc/facets.txt

(I've already filed a bug that they're undocumented in the pkg(5) man page.)

-- 
        -Alan Coopersmith-        [email protected]
         Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System

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