Sarah Jelinek wrote: > Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote: > >>> So, I have followed most of this patching in the minrroot thread. I >>> have some comments to add: >>> >>> The miniroot is 'special' and owned by install. I agree that perhaps >>> it shouldn't be special, but it is. >>> >> >> >> As you suggested in your other mail "not making it special" would >> be my preferred option. How can we make it "not special", perhaps >> by making sure certain services are not required and can be removed? >> (About 6 services have their script replaced with "exit 0"; if they >> could be removed from the repository instead .....) >> >> >> >>> If you read the man page for patchadd -C it says that you should only >>> install patches that are recommended for the miniroot, such as >>> install-related patches, like pkg commands, etc..this is a very >>> limited set of patches. >>> >> >> >> Unfortunately, patches with (boot) device support *must* be included >> as do patches which fix issues in ACPI, pci and others. >> > > Agreed. > >> Any suggestions for a way forward? >> > > In the near term, this is hard, we have kind of a mess right now. There > is no way I can see to make the patching process 'aware' of the > miniroot. We have patches generated all over the company. And, as far as > I know we have never done it this way in the past. > > I just read the additional info in this thread about how the miniroot is > built(which I did not know before), and the use of the SUNWsibi package. > Perhaps the near term answer is to ship this package in some way so that > it can be applied to the miniroot after it is patched as you and James > have suggested. This doesn't seem unreasonable to me. > Biut SUNWsibi has changed from FCS to u1 and again for U3, so what rev of SUNWsibi do we ship in say KU 118855-29 for instance?
I shoudl be able to patch my U2 miniroot with a KU that will also apply to my U3 miniroot ( at some point down the line ) But SUNWsibi is different in u2 to u3 miniroot. ( at least build 5 of u3 anyway ) Enda > The long term approach is to make the miniroot not special. We have this > work as part of the work we are doing with Caiman. We recognize that > this is an issue. > > My answers are likely unsatisfactory. Sorry... I don't have any magic > answers for an immediate fix for this issue. > > thanks, > sarah > **** > > >> Casper >> >> > >
