On 20 Nov 2010, at 19:09, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > On Sat, 2010-11-20 at 09:02 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> Alasdair Lumsden wrote: >>> On 20 Nov 2010, at 05:49, Albert Lee wrote: >>>> - Create a text_install cluster for the Text Installer (its current >>>> use of an explicit package list is quite embarrassing). >>> >>> I always wondered why they did it that way. >> >> That's what the server_install cluster is that was introduced in b150: >> https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=12737 >> http://hg.openindiana.org/pkg-gate/file/tip/src/util/distro-import/150/common/ServerInstall >> >> (Be careful though, that's around the build that non-freely-redistributable >> packages started getting included in the main Solaris Express repo & clusters >> even the now-misnamed "redistributable", so you'll probably need to drop some >> packages that are in the clusters but not in your repos.) >> > > > That's *really* scary, IMO, as it represents the start of a path where > Oracle no longer cares about this separation. At the end of the day, > this has the potential to poison downstream consumers. > > This makes my call to "fork" these various consolidations even more > compelling, IMO.
Agreed - we're going to need to be careful there. If the main Solaris 11 repositories can't be mirrored because packages aren't redistributable, Solaris 11 is going to have a hard time getting deployed in banks where machines have no internet access at all. Alasdair. _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev