James C. McPherson wrote: > Hi all, > one important part of adding a new driver to OpenSolaris > is testing installations. We currently handle this inside > Sun by using bfu and netinstall. I believe that the info > necessary to make changes to bfu is reasonably open, however > the same cannot be said for netinstall. > > What is stopping us from opening the instructions and > Release Engineering scripts? If we can open them then I > think it will be significantly easier to not just test > adding new drivers, but also to create new distributions > in general. > > > Comments/brickbats/.... please >
We have started the Distribution Constructor project (it's technically a sub-project of the Caiman project) in the Install community to address this need going forward. It's early days, but hop on over to caiman-discuss if you're interested in this. CDkit (RE's current tool) is really not something I'd inflict on my friends in the community ;-) It's going to go away, though, so spending scarce resources on open-sourcing it seems like a bad answer. Dave _______________________________________________ tools-discuss mailing list tools-discuss@opensolaris.org
