Ethan Quach wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

I need to clarify this statement.  The patch should be available to be 
applied onto installed systems, but it shouldn't be applied to the miniroot.

> 
> 
>>
>> 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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