[caiman-discuss] transfer module update

2008-06-19 Thread Jean McCormack
Sarah and I talked today about including the variable for different types of images. It's cheap and makes the code more flexible. We also discussed adding set-authority, unset-authority and refresh actions. These should be easy to add onto what I already have working. Jean Sarah Jelinek wrote:

[caiman-discuss] transfer module update

2008-06-19 Thread Sarah Jelinek
Karen Tung wrote: > Jean McCormack wrote: >> Sarah Jelinek wrote: >> >>> -I assume ?full? are the only types of images we will create? >>> >> I don't understand what you mean by "full" image. >> > IPS supports 3 different kind of images. Full image, partial image > and user image. >

[caiman-discuss] transfer module update

2008-06-19 Thread Karen Tung
Jean McCormack wrote: > Sarah Jelinek wrote: > > >> -I assume ?full? are the only types of images we will create? >> >> > I don't understand what you mean by "full" image. > IPS supports 3 different kind of images. Full image, partial image and user image. DC would only use full ima

[caiman-discuss] transfer module update

2008-06-19 Thread Jean McCormack
Sarah Jelinek wrote: > Hi Jean, > > A couple of comments/questions on this proposal.. > > > >> I'm currently updating the transfer module to reflect the design >> specified in the DC documention. >> I'd like to make sure it fits the needs of others too so here's the general >> idea of what I'

[caiman-discuss] transfer module update

2008-06-19 Thread Sarah Jelinek
Hi Jean, A couple of comments/questions on this proposal.. > I'm currently updating the transfer module to reflect the design > specified in the DC documention. > I'd like to make sure it fits the needs of others too so here's the general > idea of what I'm doing. > > The Transfer module lays

[caiman-discuss] transfer module update

2008-06-17 Thread Jean McCormack
Karen Tung wrote: > Jean McCormack wrote: >> >> A new function to perform IPS initialization will need to be created. >> It will perform the >> equivalent of the following: pkg image-create -F -a >> opensolaris.org=TM_IPS_PKG_SERVER TM_IPS_MNTPT. >> >> A new function to perform IPS verification w

[caiman-discuss] transfer module update

2008-06-17 Thread Glenn Lagasse
Karen Tung wrote: > Jean McCormack wrote: >> A new function to perform IPS initialization will need to be created. It >> will perform the >> equivalent of the following: pkg image-create -F -a >> opensolaris.org=TM_IPS_PKG_SERVER TM_IPS_MNTPT. >> >> A new function to perform IPS verification will

[caiman-discuss] transfer module update

2008-06-17 Thread Karen Tung
Jean McCormack wrote: > > A new function to perform IPS initialization will need to be created. It > will perform the > equivalent of the following: pkg image-create -F -a > opensolaris.org=TM_IPS_PKG_SERVER TM_IPS_MNTPT. > > A new function to perform IPS verification will need to be created. It

[caiman-discuss] transfer module update

2008-06-17 Thread Jean McCormack
Dave Miner wrote: > >> Currently there exists the code to cpio an entire directory. This >> code is being >> looked at to make it independent of live CD functionality. It should >> just cpio the files from one directory to another, and deal with the >> issue >> of zero length files. > > See bug 2

[caiman-discuss] transfer module update

2008-06-16 Thread Dave Miner
> Currently there exists the code to cpio an entire directory. This code > is being > looked at to make it independent of live CD functionality. It should > just cpio the files from one directory to another, and deal with the issue > of zero length files. See bug 2184. Dave

[caiman-discuss] transfer module update

2008-06-16 Thread Jean McCormack
I'm currently updating the transfer module to reflect the design specified in the DC documention. I'd like to make sure it fits the needs of others too so here's the general idea of what I'm doing. The Transfer module lays out the bits onto the disk. There will be 2 ways of doing so, using cpio a