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 _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
