Hi Jeff, I don't know of such a plan. I don't work on the zones team though, so you would probably be better off asking one of the zones developers or their manager.
Gary On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 09:49:46AM -0400, Jeff Victor wrote: > Do you know if there is a plan to make this available as an S10 patch? > > Gary Pennington wrote: > >On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 01:03:40PM +0100, Gary Pennington wrote: > > > >>On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 02:13:51AM -0700, UNIX admin wrote: > >> > >>>Having built the second revision of the Run-Time Platform Solaris, I > >>>went on to install zones. > >>> > >>>Effectively it turns out that if I were to satisfy all the dependencies, > >>>I would effectively have to install more or less the entire X windowing > >>>environment. > >>> > >>>Zone packages end up needing other packages, which end up needing the > >>>SUNWj5rt package, > >>> > >>>SUNWj5rt needs a whole bunch of X-windows packages, such as SUNWxwplt > >>>and the like, > >>> > >>>which personally I find insane and totally against my goal to build a > >>>run-time platform that is as lean and as flexible as possible. > >>> > >>>Why do zone packages and eventually their dependencies like the pool > >>>package end up needing Java? As soon as Java is in the game, I can > >>>forget a lean and mean run-time platform. Java belongs in the middleware > >>>layer, not in the core operating system layer. > >>> > >>>Is this a bug? Can this be fixed? When can it be fixed? This is in > >>>Solaris 10 6/06, and most likely in Solaris 10 1/06 as well. > >>> > >> > >>It is fixed in Nevada. > >> > >>Take a look at: > >> > >>http://scsh280r1.holland.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-1-5063672-1&searchclause=5063672 > >> > > > > > >I'm sorry, that was the wrong URL. That's an internal site and I doubt you > >can access it. > > > >This might be more useful: > > > >http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=5063672 > > > >Gary > > > > > >>for more details. > >> > >>Gary > >> > >> > >>>It is simply insane that I have to install Java and X-windows software > >>>to get zone functionality, i.e. satisfy package dependencies. > >>> > >>> > >>>This message posted from opensolaris.org > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>>zones-discuss mailing list > >>>[email protected] > >> > >>-- > >>Gary Pennington > >>Solaris Kernel Development, > >>Sun Microsystems > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>_______________________________________________ > >>zones-discuss mailing list > >>[email protected] > > > > > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystems jeff.victor @ sun.com > OS Ambassador Sr. Technical Specialist > Solaris 10 Zones FAQ: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zones/faq > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Gary Pennington Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list [email protected]
