[zones-discuss] IPKG Brand for S10/SX:CE

2009-04-23 Thread Ben Rockwood
Has any one invested time trying to get IPKG branded zones working on S10/SX:CE? I'm starting down that road and have had fairly good progress to date but would love to collaborate. benr. ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] IPKG Brand for S10/SX:CE

2009-04-23 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Ben Rockwood b...@cuddletech.com wrote: Has any one invested time trying to get IPKG branded zones working on S10/SX:CE? I'm starting down that road and have had fairly good progress to date but would love to collaborate. Yes, I have done an ipkg zone on

Re: [zones-discuss] IPKG Brand for S10/SX:CE

2009-04-23 Thread Ben Rockwood
Wow! Thanks Mike, this was really helpful. Its almost exactly the same as my experience. My first attempt was actually to create the zone root by hand by creating a partial image into which I installed 'entire', but that got messy and instead I hacked up the brand scripts in the same way you

Re: [zones-discuss] IPKG Brand for S10/SX:CE

2009-04-23 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Ben Rockwood wrote: One issue I did smack into that I don't fully understand yet is the syseventd service failing within the zone. I'm still trying to hash out how to solve that. Ben, The sysevent service should not run in the ngz. This is delivered in a hollow pkg with svr4 pkging. You

Re: [zones-discuss] IPKG Brand for S10/SX:CE

2009-04-23 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Ben Rockwood wrote: One issue I did smack into that I don't fully understand yet is the syseventd service failing within the zone. I'm still trying to hash out how to solve that. Sorry, I sent a pointer to the wrong webrev. It should be: http://cr.opensolaris.org/~gjelinek/webrev.6793/

Re: [zones-discuss] IPKG Brand for S10/SX:CE

2009-04-23 Thread Ben Rockwood
Jerry Jelinek wrote: Ben Rockwood wrote: One issue I did smack into that I don't fully understand yet is the syseventd service failing within the zone. I'm still trying to hash out how to solve that. Ben, The sysevent service should not run in the ngz. This is delivered in a hollow pkg

Re: [zones-discuss] IPKG Brand for S10/SX:CE

2009-04-23 Thread Dan Price
On Thu 23 Apr 2009 at 01:06PM, Ben Rockwood wrote: Jerry Jelinek wrote: Ben Rockwood wrote: One issue I did smack into that I don't fully understand yet is the syseventd service failing within the zone. I'm still trying to hash out how to solve that. Ben, The sysevent service

Re: [zones-discuss] IPKG Brand for S10/SX:CE

2009-04-23 Thread Ben Rockwood
Dan Price wrote: On Thu 23 Apr 2009 at 01:06PM, Ben Rockwood wrote: Jerry Jelinek wrote: Ben Rockwood wrote: One issue I did smack into that I don't fully understand yet is the syseventd service failing within the zone. I'm still trying to hash out how to solve that.

Re: [zones-discuss] IPKG Brand for S10/SX:CE

2009-04-23 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Ben Rockwood wrote: So I'm perplexed how this service could wind up in the zone-- unless the variant isn't getting set properly in the image? Or perhaps the mixing of a very new version of SUNWipkg with older repository contents is causing this to not work right... I'm not certain. Stated

Re: [zones-discuss] IPKG Brand for S10/SX:CE

2009-04-23 Thread Dan Price
On Thu 23 Apr 2009 at 03:16PM, Ben Rockwood wrote: Excellent! That explains things. I know that syseventd doesn't run in zones, but in the past I've seen SMF scripts simply exiting if it was in a ngz, I wasn't sure how this was handled. Well, it doesn't actually explain

Re: [zones-discuss] IPKG Brand for S10/SX:CE

2009-04-23 Thread Ben Rockwood
Dan Price wrote: I've filed http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=8392 to cover this issue. If you monitor the status, it'll let you know when it makes sense to pull a new version of the pkg-gate and try out the fix. Thanks guys! Sweet, thanks Dan! benr.