On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Shawn Walker<[email protected]> wrote: > Moinak Ghosh wrote: >> >> While this is good, thinking through the impact it will have on >> application >> and layered software packages and providing adequate hooks to take >> care of configuration issues should have been much higher priority in >> the >> IPS development action-items. For eg. there is currently no way to >> package > > I'm fairly certain pkg(5) users preferred the priorities to be on fixing > performance issues and adding basic functionality. As you are aware, > resources are finite, and so the most important items were prioritised. It > is regrettable that more resources were not available so that the work you > are talking about could not have been done sooner, but was necessary. > > Significant strides have been made in memory usage reduction, performance > improvements, documentation, publication, repository browser user interface, > and other areas. > >> the following HP driver with IPS and have it working properly: >> >> http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=3186080&prodNameId=3288103&swEnvOID=2023&swLang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=MTX-30012bd09e11426b9b289142e4 >> >> It modifies a bunch of configuration files. > > Actually, after looking at that particular driver's > postinstall/checkinstall, etc. scripts, it doesn't appear to do anything > more than add a driver to the system or remove it. Nothing stands out as > requiring scripting, and I don't see it modifying any true "configuration > files". The few scripting items that are there don't apply to OpenSolaris > 2009.06, including, the bootenv.rc changes, and the jumpstart preparation. > > Regardless, you are right that there are some specific cases that will have > to be dealt with. >
I have found in practice that the driver does not work unless the class-action scripts are allowed to execute. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
