Kyle McDonald wrote: > Kyle McDonald wrote: > >> Danek Duvall wrote: >> >> >>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 03:59:57PM +0100, William Schumann wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> [correction: This posting is a proposal for changes to INST_RELEASE. >>>> Other enhancements are suggested within. Review is sought for the >>>> proposal, as well as other enhancement ideas.] >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Out of curiosity, what is it that you (and Kyle, at least) are using >>> /etc/release and this file for? >>> >>> >>> It seems I can't stop talking to myself. ;)
>> For me, during JumpStart installs, it's the only place I've found to >> figure out the S10 update #, or the NV build #. >> Interestingly, I can't recall exaclty why, but for my jumpstarts, I'm not just getting this info from /etc/release. I'm actually getting it from /cdrom/Solaris_*/Product/SUNWsolnm/reloc/etc/release. It may just be because I wanted to make sure that I got the update of the relase being installed, or it maybe that the miniroot didn't have an /etc/release? If the latter, I'd like to point out that discovering this in AI should be made easier if possible. :) Especially since installing pkgs from network IPS repositories will probalby make it impossible for me to peek inside the SUNWsolnm package :) -Kyle >> In my Jumpstarts, the NV build number hasn't (yet) been somethign I've >> needed to key off, but I make it available. >> The S10 update however, I have had to use, as my finish scripts have >> needed to change for didfferent updates: >> >> 1) SMF appeared in an update release if I recall correctly. ZFS did too, >> but I don't think that mattered to me (yet - ZFS boot will.) >> >> 2) changes to config files that I customize (the one that comes to mind >> goes with the SMF intro: /etc/inittab) during the finish script either >> nolong need changing, or need to be changed in different ways. >> >> >> >> > To add to this, I would *love* it if 'uname' or something similiar could > just have an executable way to provide this info. > > I'm sure there's a reason, but I've always wondered why uname -r doesn't > return 5.10.4 for S10u4. > > -Kyle > > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >
