Artem Kachitchkine wrote:
> Kyle J. McDonald wrote:
>> I just started trying my Jumpstart profile on b52 (53 is downloading
>> as I write this.)
>>
>> I'm not sure this is the right place to post, but maybe someone can
>> point me in the right direction.
>>
>> (Maybe someone can point me to a mailing list to subscribe to to be
>> aware of packages changes like this too?)
>>
>> It appears that somewhere between b48 and b52, SUNWCvol (the long
>> lived solaris volume manager) has been replaced by SUNCrmvolmgr. At
>> first I thought it was just a names change, but from the pkg
>> dependencies it has caused I"m guessing it's a rewrite.
>>
>> The old volmgr probably didn't do enough. But it did work, and it
>> worked on machines that only had a command line - No X desktop.
>>
>> For some reason the new 'rmvolmgr' has several dependencies, some of
>> which imply that it may require not just X11, but GNOME. This seems
>> to me to be a big step backwards. Ideally at least the old
>> functionality would be available without a windowed desktop,
>> Hopefully CD's will still automatically mount.
>>
>> What's the rational behind this change? Is there somewhere i can go
>> to read about the design, and find out if a window system is really
>> going to be required?
>
> Window system is not required. Media will still automatically mount.
> The new framework depends on D-Bus and GLib, which reside in SUNWdbus*
> and SUNWgnome-base-libs* packages - neither is a GUI component
> technically, although resides in the Desktop consolidation.
>
Reading up on Dbus I aggree that it's not windows system related. Why
then is it in SUNWCjdslibrun?
I'd only expect to find 'Desktop' thing in there, and I wouldn't install
that cluster on a server.
Just to clarify, will it mount media with SUNWdbus missing (i.e. It's a
soft dependency?) or SUNWdbus is absoultely required (hard dependency)
but the rest of the window system is not?
Same question for SUNWgnome-base-libs? I hope the answer is that it's
only required to enable 'extra' functionality, and that it will work
without it. I don't want to have to install the GNOME libraries (or the
things they require) just to make this work on a server.
This seems reasonable as the old volume manager worked fine like this.
-Kyle
> You can learn more about the project on the project page:
>
> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/tamarack/
>
> Note: If you upgrade or liveupgrade to 52 or 53, you'll need to run
> 'svcadm enable hal rmvolmgr' once - the bug has been fixed in 54, so
> if you upgrade to 54, these services are automatically enabled on
> upgrade.
>
> -Artem.
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