[oi-dev] Desktop Illumos Still Matters

Nick Zivkovic zivkovic.nick at gmail.com
Thu Sep 6 17:06:19 UTC 2012


On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 4:35 AM, Joerg Schilling
<Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> "Andrew M. Hettinger" <AHettinger at Prominic.NET> wrote:
>
>> That said, I think what Nick was talking about was not a build failure, but
>> common issues IPS itself can have. I've seen a few (rare) times where it
>> will just spit out a call-stack. Haveing a goto page of potental problems
>> and fixes/workarounds would help.
>
> Apart from the uncomodities with IPS, there is a real bug in OI:
>
> There is no way to mark a zone as "native" in OI and a native zone will be
> modified on upgrades even though this is wrong.

Hi Joerg.

If I understand you correctly, when doing an image-update with IPS,
IPS will try to forcefully update all (ipkg-brand) NGZs?

I don't see this in the documentation anywhere. Or did you have
something else in mind?

Thanks.

>
> BTW: SchilliX-ON recently fixed the problem with the missing files that are the
> reason for nor being able to mark a zone as "native".
>
>
>
> Jörg
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