Joerg Schilling wrote:
Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersm...@sun.com> wrote:
If the test suite is going to be running on nv_128 or later, then
you are guaranteed to have a zfs filesystem, since root must be
zfs then (since the only install method will be IPS, which requires
zfs root). Until then you could just document to run it on a
system with a zfs filesystem available.
Are you kidding?
pkg will install just fine onto other filesystems eg:
$ pkg image-create -a opensolaris.org=http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev
/tmp/darrenm/myimage
$ pkg -R /tmp/darrenm/myimage install SUNWmkcd
/tmp is tmpfs on this sytem and note that the prompt is $ not # pkg
doesn't even require you be root.
Whats more pkg isn't even specific to Solaris it works on other UNIX
like systems and even on Windows. So it is clearly false that it
requires ZFS since that doesn't even exist on all the other platforms.
Don't confuse the decisions made for the OpenSolaris 2009.06 releases of
only supporting and allowing install to ZFS root with the capabilities
of the package system.
An installer that depends on the availability of a specific root filesystem
is based on a design bug.
What is the reason? Is there still no pkgrm command in IPS?
If Yes, then it is obvious that IPS is not yet ready for production use.
See the man page for pkg:
pkg uninstall [-nrvq] [--no-index] package...
If you want to discuss pkg capabilities more please continue this
discussion on pkg-disc...@opensolaris.org where the pkg experts will be
happy to engage.
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Darren J Moffat
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