Channing Lovely wrote:
> Ok, so you cleaned up the verbiage saying that the intrepid user must 
> use a compression algorithm supported by lofiadm. How is our intrepid 
> user supposed to know that? The lofiadm man page only talks about 
> gzip. So, at this point we are distributing DC code that is using an 
> option that is not legal per man pages, and if our public audience 
> follows the instructions on "getting started with distro constructor" 
> and try to build themselves, it will die. There is some breakage here, 
> not sure where it needs to be addressed.
Why will it die? gzip is fine. lzma is fine even if the man pages don't 
say so.

Jean
>
> The code changes are fine, with the caveat noted above.
>
> Channing
>
> Jean McCormack wrote:
>> Dave Miner wrote:
>>  
>>> Jean McCormack wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Addresses:
>>>> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=1125
>>>>
>>>> Webrev:
>>>> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~jeanm/distro_constructor/
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> A couple of things:
>>>
>>> - It would be nice if this also allowed gzip-9, since lofiadm allows 
>>> that to be used as well
>>>
>>> - Relatedly, I'd rather we didn't duplicate lofiadm's error checking 
>>> of its command-line parameters, since this creates another place 
>>> that needs changing if and when lofiadm acquires additional 
>>> compression.  You could pass this through to a dummy lofiadm 
>>> invocation to let it validate, perhaps.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>     
>> I've updated the webrev.
>>
>> Jean
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