On 3/28/06, Casper.Dik at sun.com <Casper.Dik at sun.com> wrote: > > >Is it safe to simply add the few packages that are sun4v or T2000 > >specific to a sun4u system (15k) to enable building a single sparc > >flar? I'm not asking for an in-depth analysis here, just wondering if > >you have a strong gut feeling one way or another. I *really* want to > >have one sparc flar. > > I believe that this was possible before. > > (But note that our patch tools were broken for a while which regards > to multiple versions of the same package which is what will happen) > > Casper
I just noticed another snag on this one. It seems as though flarcreate does not properly recognize which architectures are available (or I got sun4v onto the disk in the wrong way...) As a quick and dirty test, I took a V240 that I had just imaged with a S10 1/06 SUNWCXall flar. I then... # cd $media/Solaris_10/Product # pkgadd -d . *.v # flarcreate -SHc -n testflar /var/tmp/testflar In the header of /var/tmp/testflar appears the line: content_architectures=sun4u I expect this is going to lead to having jumpstart tell me that the flar lacks the appropriate architecture support when I go to install it on a sun4v box. This could be related to the warnings during pkgadd that "X package pathnames are already properly installed." I suspect that was for directories that were common to the *.u and *.v packages but have not yet checked to be sure there were not more serious conflicts. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
