On 02/17/10 02:21 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: > On 02/17/10 01:17 PM, Dave Miner wrote: >> On 02/17/10 02:13 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: >>> 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? >>> >> >> Yes, to some extent, but primarily not. You can take a look at an >> existing AI ISO image to see what it would essentially contain, as it's >> basically just a pkgsend of that structure. >> >>> If you intend to install the image using that package, it is also >>> intended that packages be installed on top of that image? >>> >> >> No. > > Will it be clear to users that they shouldn't be attempting to create an > image that contains a fully installed, pre-configured system and then > attempt to perform package management of that resulting image? > > Will it be clear that isn't supported? >
We'll spell it out as clearly as we can. The only user-serviceable part in that image is the GRUB menu, everything else is an implementation detail. Dave
