Mike Gerdts wrote: > On 9/6/07, Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland) > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> One other thing, make sure to run >> patchadd -a <patchid-revision> >> first, -a basically does a dryrun, boots any halted zones etc and does >> dependency checks. > > Hmmm, I've been looking for dryrun support. A quick look at the man > page shows why I haven't found it yet. Is the fact that the -a option > is not documented a bug or an indication that it is a private feature? > I just need to know what to put in the bug report. it's actually private, but is so useful in terms on zones patching, that I just tell all people too run it. Might log an RFE to get it converted to public as it's hard to get by in a zones system without dryrun really. > >> if there are any issues with a zone not being bootable the output should >> clearly indicate this ( examine the output carefully! ), and must be > > Is any work being done on improving the output of patchadd? As it is > today, the output is extremely tedious to read and worse to try to > parse for automated checks. I've been silently gnawing on my tongue > waiting for pdo.c to become available to see what can be done to > improve it, but the wait is getting to be quite long. hmm, I agree, it should be improved, I logged quite a few bugs against pdo messaging, but overall this really should be improved.
I can log another one and provide some suggested ideas any suggestions ( as I do not work in dev I cannot gaurantee what will or wil not get fixed by the way ) Enda > > Mike > _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
