On 2/17/07, Jens Elkner <elkner at cs.uni-magdeburg.de> wrote: > Hmm, > > most of our clients and even servers do not have any fiber > channel/NetworkArray attached. So I do not wanna install all this stuff.
Why not? Or, more precisely, what do you hope to gain by not installing them? > However, jumpstart (u3 as well as b57) says: > > WARNING: Cannot deselect required cluster (SUNWCfutil) > WARNING: Cannot deselect required cluster (SUNWChbaapi) > WARNING: Cannot deselect required cluster (SUNWCfcadb) > WARNING: Cannot deselect required cluster (SUNWCfca) > WARNING: Cannot deselect required cluster (SUNWCfct) > WARNING: Cannot deselect required cluster (SUNWCiscsi) > > Why? There are no dependencies to any other packages! And actually removing > the packages of these clusters in the given order seems to have no impact on > the system ... > Does anybody know, where this pseudo requirement is hardcoded (i.e. what do I > need to modify to fix that bug)? It's not necessarily a bug. Sun have a reasonable number of products for which some/most of these packages are essential in order for the system to boot. Preventing you from deselecting them in jumpstart (or the interactive installer) seems an eminently sensible precaution, and as you've noticed you can still manually remove them if you wish to take the risk. (Personally I think there's a case to be made for rolling these drivers into the SUNWcs packages so as to eliminate the temptation for users to shoot themselves in the foot.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
