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Hi, Damien and Peter:
I have 2 questions regarding the design:
1) Is there a way that a user could know --
* what packages are installed on the system for a specific locale?
* what locales are installed on the system for a specific package?
I am asking it because it seems that the design relies on SUNW_LOC field
provided by package owners very much. However, I think it is likely that
some human mistakes may introduce bugs that some packages are missed.
Then when a user chooses to add a region, those packages are not
installed. In that case, is there a way to identify the issue without
extensive testing?
2) Can we drop the feature of prompting user with the CD# ?
Why not just scan CDs from #1 to #N just as the initial installation does?
It is clumsy, but can save us from the complicated logics, and hence
reduce the chances that introduce defects. After all, the number of
users using CDs will decline and most of them will not add/remove
regions frequently.
Regards,
Harry
Damien Donlon wrote:
> Hi All,
> Please interpret the attached email as the official kick-off email for
> GTO review. Jan Trejbal is the sponsor of the project and is also
> collaborating on it. He is on holidays until next week but would like to
> start gathering review comments this week.
>
> Regards,
> Damien
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject:
> Localeadm Redesign One-pager Updated
> From:
> Damien Donlon <Damien.Donlon@xxxxxxx>
> Date:
> Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:35:04 +0100
> To:
> gto@xxxxxxx, Wenling.Chen@xxxxxxx
>
> To:
> gto@xxxxxxx, Wenling.Chen@xxxxxxx
>
>
> Hi All,
> Attached is a revised one-pager for the redesign of localeadm created by
> myself and Jan Trejbal. GTO procedural details :
>
> Sponsor : Jan Trejbal
> Approval mechanism/voting: explicit vote
> Auto-approval after 1 week
> Deadline for comments/discussion: 1 week. It can be extended for one
> more week if needed.
>
> Background
> ------------
> The one-pager is an extensive reworking of the original design based on
> discussions with the Caiman installer team who are anxious to be
> provided by G11n with a new API for identifying installable content
> during install.
>
> Unfortunately, the original redesign was unacceptable to the Installer
> team because it called for the use of .virtual_package_toc and other
> interfaces in the install image. They own these interfaces and could not
> guarantee their stability for future Solaris releases and requested that
> we help them in providing a new interface.
>
> We have flagged particular areas on which we would like comments with
> the string "GTO".
>
> Additional documents references in the one-pager :
>
> Example use cases and pseudo-code :
> http://qa.central/localeadm/use_cases/localeadm-functions.html
>
> Latest version of API header file at:
> http://qa.central/localeadm/c/img_g11n_info.h
>
> localeadm.Xml sample at:
> http://qa.central/localeadm/xml/LocaleadmXML.xml
>
> Looking forward to your feedback!
>
> Regards,
> Damien
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
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