On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Sarah Jelinek <Sarah.Jelinek at sun.com> wrote: > >> 4.1: "complete automation support" leaves much to the imagination and >> room for differing interpretations. I'd be more specific about what >> this means. >> > I think we have discussed this in subsequent emails. We are trying to > say that AI won't barf or do the wrong thing, and we won't offer a text > based installer to ask the remaining questions, if some of the required > data is missing. This is 'all automated' all the time. And, if critical > data is missing we will not perform the install. We will however default > on some things, like default locale, if we can.
So what does happen when something goes awry? Do we stop? (In which case telling the user what's missing, and giving them an opportunity to fix it, and then carry on, would seem appropriate.) Or panic? Reboot? (Into what state?) >> 4.3: We're not providing upgrade in the interactive installer. Why do >> we provide it here? >> > I think we need to provide it here. The interactive installer targets a > different audience than AI does. Maybe it is the term 'upgrade' as > opposed to 'update'. I intend this to mean that we will allow for > 'updating' the system to the latest pkgs in the ips repo, via key,value > pair specification. I think enterprise customers would want this to > manage their servers. Enterprise customers want jumpstart, as it is now, pretty well. Within the context of AI/IPS, though, automated upgrade doesn't seem an obvious requirement to me. Why wouldn't you do all this from the running system? -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
