Shawn Walker wrote: > > I can neither confirm nor deny your assertions ;) With that said, I was > just trying to point out that many of the reasons that some people might > have for needing this sort of scripting are no longer applicable. > Specifically, when it comes to managing which *Solaris* software is > installed, there should be no need for scripting. > And here's the crux of the matter. You guys are of the mistaken belief that Jumpstart was used to install Solaris. That part of Jumpstart was simply the tip of the iceberg and there's a huge and diverse set of tools that depend on the "hooks" provided by Jumpstart to do all the little silly things that customer want to do... like installing and configuring their apps.
The AI design has not taken this MAJOR component into consideration, and is fixated on installing Solaris in a new and sexy way. People are really not interested in JUST the Solaris install. Mike -- Mike Ramchand Principal Field Technologist Systems Practice Sun Microsystems (UK) Tel: +44 125 2421091, Ext: (70)21091, Mob: +44 780 1179593 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3253 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20090325/0220f460/attachment.bin>
