On 06/12/12 21:16, Danek Duvall wrote:
Do we really think that most administrators would want most operations to
recurse by default? I would think that -- for the most part -- only a full
image-update (as it were) should be recursive, and that with default
recursion, I would end up using -Z global on every command.
I think that there are some administrators that want to enforce that certain
packages automatically get installed in every zone without having to create
custom AI manifests or use other automation for post-install configuration.
These tend to be monitoring, asset management, and security agents. From
feedback that I've heard, it would seem to be quite reasonable to offer a
feature in pkg that causes packages to automatically propagate to child zone
images. It would be particularly nice if this could be turned on and off by the
global zone admin regardless of the publisher's decision to match the policy
that the site has. Packages that are tagged to recurse should recurse - this
includes into zones that didn't exist at the time that recursion was specified.
In general, I think that the ability to have separate sets of packages installed
between the global zone and non-global zones is a strong feature of Solaris 11
and we shouldn't swing the pendulum back to the Solaris 10 way of doing things.
--
Mike Gerdts
Solaris Core OS / Zones http://blogs.oracle.com/zoneszone/
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