Alok, That looks like a comment waiting to happen.
Jean Alok Aggarwal wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Jens Deppe wrote: > >> Here's the call chain as I see it: >> >> auto_perform_install() -> install_from_manifest() -> >> create_package_list_file(B_FALSE) >> >> In create_package_list_file(), the 'if (hardcode)' block is skipped >> and then the code below results in no packages being defined in the >> package list file: >> >> package_list = ai_get_manifest_packages(&num_packages); >> >> if (num_packages <= 0) >> goto errorout; >> >> I would think that instead of bailing at this point the default list >> of packages should be defined for installation. No? > > The missing piece here is that ai_get_manifest_packages() > will either return the list of packages if one is specified > in the manifest or return the default list (as specified in > ai_manifest.defval.xml). > > Either way this call will give you a list of packages unless > the ai_manifest.defval.xml has been changed to have an empty > list of default packages. > > Alok > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
