How many of them have written SMF manifests correctly? Install Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 MP3 with patches and note the appearance of services for VxVM. Disable those services and note how the system no longer boots to multi-user even if you're not actively using volume manager. Each of those services has been added as a dependency for the console service. They all must remain enabled.
Jim --- ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Ramchand <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 3:05 pm Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] Does the AI opensolaris autoinstallation have the post script just like the postscripts in the jumpstart To: Evan Layton <Evan.Layton at Sun.COM> Cc: Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org>, Frank Fitch <Frank.Fitch at sun.com>, James Litchfield <James.Litchfield at Sun.COM>, Glenn.Lagasse at Sun.COM, "Eric J. Ray" <Eric.Ray at Sun.COM>, Casper.Dik at Sun.COM, Jon.Aimone at Sun.COM, desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org, nv-users at sun.com, Lubomir Sedlacik <Lubomir.Sedlacik at Sun.COM>, nv_re at Sun.COM > Evan Layton wrote: > > >> > >>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. > > > >Actually there has been some thought in this area and this is one of > the uses of the distro constructor. Couldn't you just add your own > packages and have them installed as part of the image you created? > > > > They may not be my apps to package. They may not even be an app. This > forces everything that I want to install onto Solaris to adhere the > the new packaging paradigm. It simply isn't going to happen. > > How many of our ISVs have written SMF manifests for their apps? > > How many of them even provide the apps in SVR4 Pkg format? > > > Mike > -- > Mike Ramchand > Principal Field Technologist > Systems Practice > Sun Microsystems (UK) > Tel: +44 125 2421091, Ext: (70)21091, Mob: +44 780 1179593
