Jack,

2.2

If the SC manifest is an enhanced smf profile then I don't see a
need for the install tools (our parser) to understand how to
parse and validate them. We've requested from the smf team
the ability to use svccfg(1M) to validate a profile, which will
do basic syntactical validation. We don't own the form of this
file, so beyond that I don't see much more we could or should do.


5.3

 > If the Sysmap Manifest contains no criteria, it will serve as a
 > default, and will ?match? all systems for which no Sysmap
 > Manifest with explicit matching criteria exist.

What if there are two Sysmap Manifests added which have no
criteria, which one acts is the default manifest for this install
service?

Have you looked at section 1.4 of
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/auto_install/Design_doc_delta_for_AI_Spring_2009.pdf

This documents the design decisions we made regarding AI
manifest usability in the spring. Not everything in that document
applies to this project, and some things might have changed
or don't apply anymore because of all this redesign going on.
But leverage whatever you can from it. All of that stuff was
discussed and agreed upon in the open, with Frank's input.


6.1

 > XXX I assume here that derived profiles can be used for SC
 > manifest (as well as AI manifest)

The SC manifest has not been in the scope of the Derived
Manifests work. Though, I suppose it could be considered.


thanks,
-ethan


Jack Schwartz wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> Here is a link to a "functional specification" for solving the XML 
> parsing problem of "Current AI manifests are not easy to use." It is a 
> rough draft, and I'm posting it to verify that I am on the right track.
>
> It deals with XML problem statement 2:
>
> Current AI manifests are not easy to use.
>
> Its scope is inter-file organization of the manifests (naming, 
> high-level structure, inter-relatedness), which is quite a limited 
> scope for a functional specification. Other redesign tasks (XML and 
> others) will tackle the fields inside the manifests.
>
> Please send comments / feedback by lunchtime tomorrow.
>
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/XML_Parsing/xml_2_func_spec.pdf 
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jack
>
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