On 02/15/11 08:52 PM, Tim Foster wrote:
>      SUNW_PKG_HOLLOW
> 
>          Defines whether a package should be visible in any  non-
>          global  zone if that package is required to be installed
>          and be identical in all zones (for  example,  a  package
>          that  has SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES=true). Assigned value can be
>          true or false. The default value is false.  The  package
>          is not required to be installed, but if it is installed,
>          the setting of SUNW_PKG_HOLLOW has the effects described
>          below.

FWIW, I think this translates as "we need the pkginfo to be present so
that package dependencies can be met in the nonglobal zones, but we
don't want the actual software installed there."  That would translate
literally as "global zone variant tags on everything except for the
legacy actions."

A more generous (and appropriate, I think) approach would be the
"global_zone_only_component" transform set in OS/Net, which allows
header files, manpages, and mdb modules from such packages to be in
nonglobal zones.

This begs the question "should that transform set also set
variant.opensolaris.zone=__NODEFAULT on legacy actions?"

--Mark


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