That then begs the question of how driver updates would be added to a S11 system. The mechanism is still rather useful, especially for our oem partners.
--S On Aug 9, 2011, at 8:04 AM, Dave Miner <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/09/11 10:57, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> On 08/09/11 00:30, James C. McPherson wrote: >>> On 08/09/11 17:13, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >>>> On 08/09/11 00:07, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >>>>> Looking through a ton of check-deps.pl noise tonight, I saw: >>>>> >>>>> *** /usr/bin/itu (system/core-os) requires /usr/sbin/pkgadd which is >>>>> found >>>>> in package/svr4, but that is not listed as a package dependency. >>>>> >>>>> And indeed it has a bunch of references to pkgadd, patchadd and pkgtrans >>>>> - has >>>>> anyone looked at this to see if works at all with an IPS based system? >>>>> The ISO >>>>> image creation seems like it should be replaced by distro-constructor. >>> >>> These tools ($SRC/cmd/itutools) are designed to assist developers >>> or I[SH]Vs with creating Driver Update disks - so they can provide >>> support for Solaris 10 Updates. >> >> Shouldn't they be doing that on Solaris 10 then, where these tools might say, >> work? >> > > The driver update functionality is intended to be able to apply ITU/DU format > drivers if possible, but yeah, there's no reason we should be shipping tools > to create them on S11. > > Dave > _______________________________________________ > pkg-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
