Dave Miner wrote: > Tim Knitter wrote: >> IPSers, >> >> For the opensolaris May release the install team is integrating snap > upgrade which is comprised of a Boot Environment CLI, a C library to > manage the BE's and a glue library to convert Python calls -> C for > interfacing with the C library. This is the Live Upgrade replacement. > See http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Snap_Upgrade for more > details. >> >> My proposal is to modify pkg(1) to make use of the Snap Upgrade >> tools. > So I am in the process of modifying pkg(1) to support the following > scenarios: > >> pkg image_update >> - Take a snapshot of the BE before the attempted update >> - Clone and mount the snapshot >> - Update the clone >> - If there are update errors: >> ~ destroy the snapshot, unmount and destroy clone >> leaving the live BE untouched. > > I'm wondering if we should have an option to leave the clone mounted and > in place, though, for diagnostic purposes. >
Yes that is a good idea. Were you thinking of a private or public option? Or maybe it should be the default behavior for the May release. Tim > Dave _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
