Danek Duvall wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:46:01PM -0500, Kyle McDonald wrote: > > >> 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.) >> > > SMF was in S10 FCS, but yes, ZFS came into an update. > > But you shouldn't be keying off of the build number, you should be keying > off of the presence or absence of the feature you care about. There may or > may not be an interface (or a sufficiently public one) for any given > feature you might care about, but that's generally solvable by filing an > RFE (in most cases, I'd imagine that providing such an interface wouldn't > be a big issue, and a low amount of effort). > I am not sure I quite understand the "check for feature" concept. How is an average user supposed to know that ? Take the example of Xvm. An admin is told to install a version of Solaris that implements Xen 3.1. Using the current approach, a sysadmin can perhaps map this to "Nevada bld xxx" or in future Solaris 11 U1. How would this map in the "check for feature".
-Sanjay > >> To add to this, I would *love* it if 'uname' or something similiar could >> just have an executable way to provide this info. >> > > Again, this is very much the wrong test. > > >> I'm sure there's a reason, but I've always wondered why uname -r doesn't >> return 5.10.4 for S10u4. >> > > It's not a micro release. It's an accumulation of patches. Indeed, it's a > non-linear accumulation of patches, so mapping a feature test onto a linear > number is decidedly not going to work. > > >> It seems I can't stop talking to myself. ;) >> > > It's okay. Now we know you're crazy. ;-) > > >> Especially since installing pkgs from network IPS repositories will >> probalby make it impossible for me to peek inside the SUNWsolnm package :) >> > > True, but you'll still be able to discover package names, path names, and > possibly more, depending on what we end up Committing to. > > Danek > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >
