On Mon 18 Jun 2012 at 05:57PM, Darren Kenny wrote: > Just to be clear, and maybe this is Part 2, but the way that this is being > changed is that the logging will now be done in the pkg code via the > logger, is that right, thus removing the need for us to do the sub-classing > we've had to do before, is that correct?
Yes, that's correct. > While there have been many requests from admins for us to provide progress > about what package is being installed, etc. I feel that the real desire for > most people is to have a meaningful progress output, so that they know > things haven't just hung, or stopped silently. Great, that's helpful. > > Ethan encouraged me to post the output printed to the console when > > performing a bare-metal install. Keep in mind that the periodic output > > you see below is currently dumped every 20 seconds (which you can very > > by looking at the timestamps); however, that's a configurable parameter, > > and I'm happy to tune it to whatever you prefer-- I personally felt that > > 3 times a minute was the outer limit to "keep the admin warm."-- a > > nice balance between not spamming the terminal and not freaking out > > the user. > > Can we be clear about what you mean when you say 'console' here? I'd like > to confirm that it's not just the tty, since we also redirect some output > to /dev/sysmsg when the user is not logged on the console, which is the > norm in AI's case. > > This is in comparison to what happens when you are user doing a zones > install, where the output is to the user's tty. > > Can I assume that the correct thing happens in both of these cases? It > looks like you have take this into account in the use_stdout toggle, but > just want to be sure... Everything should be exactly as before in terms of where output is going. > > The progress tracking wad is posted below as reference materials; I am not > > requesting comment on that work in this thread; that code is still > > undergoing minor changes in response to codereview feedback. > > > > https://cr.opensolaris.org/action/browse/pkg/dp/pkg-progress/ > > > > Thanks for your attention and help. Thanks especially to Ethan, > > without whom I would be sunk. > > In general the changes in the AI code look fine by me. Great! Thank you! -dp -- Daniel Price, Solaris Kernel Engineering _______________________________________________ caiman-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
