Keith M Wesolowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 04:55:31PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>
> > Please think about a way that would help SchilliX.
>
> Even if your suggestion below were correct (which I doubt, considering
> the kind of test infrastructure we have internally today), I would
> suggest that giving developers the ability to test their changes on a
> broad array of machines does help SchilliX. Sorry to say, it does not
> help SchilliX any *more* than it helps Solaris or any other
> distribution, but it does help as a facility for increasing test
> coverage.
If you put Solaris Express on the test machines, there is zero help
for OpenSolaris from the test machines.
> That's what we do today, yes. But there are install servers that can
> be used to install many different builds of Solaris, and some machines
> are installed with GNU/Linux or some BSD variant for competitive
> benchmarking or analysis. I see no reason it should not be possible
> to install SchilliX or any other distribution on a test system if
> that's necessary. Of course, providing that capability would be more
> work for Jim's team, so it may not be there on day one, but there's no
I asume that Sun already has a bunch of test machines to test Sun
Solaris and that the new machines aere intended to help OpenSolaris.
If you like to help the OpenSolaris project, you need to focus on OpenSolaris.
> technical reason it couldn't be done. If SchilliX can be netinstalled
> the way Solaris is today, it'd likely be easier to install on test
> machines and therefore be available sooner.
If you describe what you understand by "netinstalled", it may be possible
to discuss this proposal.
> > How should we then remove all the software and files that is not part
> > of OpenSolaris or SchilliX and that would falsify test results?
>
> Removing all files from a system which are not part of OpenSolaris
> will result in an unbootable system. Unbootable systems tend not to
> produce test results, so any you obtained from such a system would
> indeed be falsified. I suspect I'm simply not understanding your
> question.
Please don't ne too fast and read my mail before you answer.
.....
OK, now you see that I did never write that I like to remove all files.
If you have problems to understand the problems that we have with supporting
OpenSolaris, please install SchilliX on a previously empty machine and do
some development work. I am sure it will take you less than a day to understand
the Problems OpenSolaris developers have.
Jörg
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