Sundar Yamunachari wrote: > Sarah, > > There are couple of comments that may not directly involved with > the document but I want to bring to your attention. > > 1. We need to add the functionality of discovering boot environment > as part of target discovery > 2. The GUI installer and AI has too much knowledge about > liborchestrator and when we redesign the install engine, we need to > make the interface cleaner. > Hi Sundar,
Thanks for the info. I will add this to our data for this work. thanks, sarah > Thanks, > Sundar > > Sarah Jelinek wrote: >> I should have mentioned.. you will see many functional groupings in >> the document we posted. Not all of these are considered part of what >> an install engine should provide. As noted on the project page we >> will identify areas that have common/overlapping functionality in the >> Caiman components that may be out of scope in terms of design for >> this project. They will however be tracked by other projects, current >> or TBD. >> >> At a high level we are thinking that an install engine should provide >> the following functionality: >> >> -Target discovery >> -Target instantiation >> -Transfer of bits >> -checkpointing >> -setup of postinstall tasks >> -Observability in to installation >> -Error handling for engine functionality >> >> While we consider the following consumer specific functionality: >> -Processing of user specified, or derived input >> -Post install processing >> -Consumer error handling >> >> Just some data for clarification. >> >> thanks, >> sarah >> ***** >>> Hi All, >>> >>> There are updates posted to the Caiman Unified Design Page. >>> Specifically, addition of a description of this project, an overview >>> of the deliverables expected. >>> >>> Project web page: >>> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/CUD >>> >>> Also, we posted a new document: >>> >>> Current Caiman Components: common and redundant functionality(with >>> differences noted): >>> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/CUD/caiman_common.pdf >>> >>> This document describes the areas of common and overlapping >>> functionality offered by the current Caiman components, grouped in >>> functionality groups. The differences are also noted for >>> completeness and to ensure that during the design phase we account >>> for these. >>> >>> We are currently working on a draft document that will list the >>> requirements for a Caiman unified install engine. This will be >>> posted to the alias and we will have a meeting to discuss these next >>> week. >>> >>> Please review the new document and send feedback and questions to >>> the alias. >>> >>> thanks, >>> sarah >>> _______________________________________________ >>> caiman-discuss mailing list >>> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >> >> _______________________________________________ >> caiman-discuss mailing list >> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >
