On 02/17/10 01:08 PM, Dave Miner wrote: > On 02/17/10 02:01 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: >> On 02/12/10 04:11 PM, Dave Miner wrote: >>> As you may recall, we reviewed a first draft of this design in >>> December/early January. I've finally published a revision which >>> addresses the comments I received, primarily from Jan and Ethan. >>> >>> While not exactly frozen, implementation work is underway based on this >>> design so any remaining issues should be raised soon to allow the best >>> chance to address them. >>> >>> http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+caiman/AI+Image+Management >> >> "We propose to publish the AI boot image content into the pkg(5) >> repository as the package image/autoinstall...The Distribution >> Constructor will be extended to provide automatic publication of the >> images to a pkg repository if specified in the construction manifest." >> >> By publication of images, I'm assuming you mean a special package that >> essentially contains the list of packages that were in the original AI >> or Distribution Constructor manifest? >> > > It's a package that contains the actual, processed boot image.
Will that package contain files that are already in other packages in the same repository? If you intend to install the image using that package, it is also intended that packages be installed on top of that image? -- Shawn Walker
