[oi-dev] [developer] how to fix support for system_locale in sysidcfg for non global zone installation

[Jim Klimov]

2012-05-26 22:39, Alasdair Lumsden wrote:
> On 26 May 2012, at 17:46, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>
>> sysidtool (where this lives) is not part of illumos-gate.  Its a part of OpenIndiana.  I'm having trouble locating the sources they used for this.  I'm not entirely certain the source for it *is* open.  Evidently it was part of the installer and was never opened up.  I'm a little dismayed about this -- I never realized this to be the case, although admittedly there are distributions which make no use of sysidtool at all.
>
> I'm not sure where the sysidcfg code lives (Will have to have a rummage) but I've never liked the way any of it works and I'm sure I'm not alone.
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> We (OpenIndiana) may want to adopt the approach OmniOS took which is to get rid of it and use something much simpler. If the OmniOS approach is sufficiently good enough for most people then we could just import it. I imagine adding compatibility with the sysidcfg file would be pretty trivial if anyone really cared about it.

Compatibility plan is a good thing to keep in mind.

I remember the pitch being that OpenIndiana is "the" upgrade
path for Solaris/OpenSolaris users who don't want to be held
ransom by purchasing from Oracle. As such, supporting the
common means of configuration (even if realized differently
under the hood) is important - I think.

Perhaps less so with things obsoleted along with SVR4-based
distros (like the distro method itself, the installation of
local zones and support of sparse-root zones, JumpStart and
Liveupgrade technologies). But, given the attempts at current
static package-based distros (i.e. with DEBs) I wonder why
the SVR4 distro, administrable and usable like Sol10/SXCE,
is not (yet?) revived. Now *that* would be cool! :)

My 2c,
//Jim Klimov