Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersm...@sun.com> wrote:
>
>> If the test suite is going to be running on nv_128 or later, then
>> you are guaranteed to have a zfs filesystem, since root must be
>> zfs then (since the only install method will be IPS, which requires
>> zfs root). Until then you could just document to run it on a
>> system with a zfs filesystem available.
>
> Are you kidding?
No, though as Darren clarified, it's the IPS-based installers and pkg
image-update mechanism that rely on ZFS, since boot environments are
managed using ZFS snapshots/clones, much as Live Upgrade does on ZFS systems.
> An installer that depends on the availability of a specific root filesystem
> is based on a design bug.
The installer used in Solaris 2.0 through the original release of 10 required
UFS as the root filesystem - that wasn't a design bug, just the way it was
designed.
> Is there still no pkgrm command in IPS?
pkgrm is the command for SVR4 packages. pkg uninstall is the IPS
equivalent and has of course been there since the first public release
of IPS. Perhaps you should try using IPS before telling the world
how broken your understanding of it is.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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