Peter Harvey wrote:
> Talking of the SUNWicda issues we had the following P1 bug passed to us 
> (Solaris RPE, Data team):
> 
>   6481557 patch T118833-29 will not install in miniroot
>   <http://monaco.sfbay/detail.jsf?cr=6481557>
> 
> I added the following to the bug:
> 
> ===
> 
> I'm not a SBD expert but here's my analysis:
> 
> In essence, we need to ship SUNWicda in a patch that can be applied to
> the mini-root of network install images.
> 
> The dependency was created by this fix:
> 
>   6438773 install needs way of (de)selecting Secure by default

We should not be creating a patch for this bugfix.  This is a new 
miniroot feature in the S10U3 release and should only be available in 
S10U3.  We don't patch miniroot features into existence!  If a customer 
wants support for SBD at Install time, they install S10U3.


> 
> It introduced a change in sysidget which checks for a new install
> profile option called "service_profile" which can be "limited_net" or
> "open". See:
> 
> <http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/security/projects/sbd/sbd_design>
> 
> So if the latest KU, which contains SBD bits is installed in the
> mini-root the resulting boot image may not install properly unless the
> updated sysidget binary is also present - hence the dependency check.
> 
> I've no idea of the history of the prepatch script and I don't believe
> they are versioned. It's thus difficult to determine quite why the
> changes were made, when and by whom.
> 
> Given that we *must* be able to apply the KU to any Solaris 10 net
> install image and SBD requires sysidget with the SBD changes, then we
> must make the updated SUNWicda package available somewhere - probably
> as a patch.
> 
> We can't make the KU depend on the proposed SUNWicda patch as it's
> only required when patching the mini-root.
> 
> ===
> 
> -- Peter
> 
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