My thoughts on migrating to the new world of install and update: wanboot and flash archives (or their equivalent) are very important for managing our site. I have been assured that a flar equivalent is coming for the new tools, but that's all I know so far. We live and die by flar, this function is a must-have.
I'm not partial as to which languages are used for pkg tools, so long as they perform. It looks like these enhancements are underway. I don't care how *many* languages you use, so long as the boot archive doesn't grow appreciably. I need to keep one local cached repository of updates for installing on a private network (no internet needed during updates). I'm not clear on whether the pkg tools fully support proxies yet. IMHO this is necessary for enterprise usage. I guess that retooling my own packages is inevitable. There's a cost associated with it, but I'm not married to the old tools -- just very familiar with them. I do like Jumpstart quite a bit for extracting flar's, it's simple. No JET in use here. I can't see vendors updating all of their software, though -- we still install S8-built commercial packages today, and they have actions. The vendor doesn't care to update them. Will they spend the effort for pkg? It's a potential barrier. I think that the action-less design will make installation and updates more reliable. Great, I will benefit from that. Even so, I still need some way to take a few actions, I guess we just have to be a bit clever to make that happen. I make my bread and butter on the old tools, but I look forward to seeing where the new tools take will us. I can live in both worlds at the same time, so long as the decision-makers don't conclude that Solaris Next is too alien to adopt. Thank you for reading... -cheers, CSB -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
