[caiman-discuss] Additions to package list

[David.Comay at Sun.COM]

>>> SUNWbtool       CCS tools bundled with SunOS
>
>   This package contains things like elfdump, nm, strip etc. Not good
>   to leave out.

But those tools are useful for developers and we've definitely not been
including developer tools on the Live CD.  We could do this but we're
talking potentially about a lot here from the compilers, lexers, etc.

>>> SUNWtnfd        TNF Developer Components
>>> SUNWtnfc        TNF Core Components
>
>   Useful for debugging crashdumps or running kernel, but maybe
>   not required for LiveCD.

These really don't seem as useful in the world of DTrace so including
them seems superfluous.

>>> SUNWbnur        Networking UUCP Utilities, (Root)
>>> SUNWbnuu        Networking UUCP Utilities, (Usr)
>
>   Some folks do use uucp. It is one of the basic Unix utilities.

For the Live CD though?  Sure, we should keep it in the repository but
do other Live CD-based operating systems support UUCP when booted
live?

>>> SUNWipc         Interprocess Communications
>
>   Provides the commands ipcs and ipcrm. Useful for developers.

Yes, I could including this.

>>> SUNWter         Terminal Information
>
>   This provides the terminfo database. We wouldn't want to leave
>   this out right ?

I could see too although I'm not sure how applicable it really is
either in live mode or the first reboot after install.

>>> SUNWpppd        Solaris PPP Device Drivers
>>> SUNWpppdr       Solaris PPP configuration files
>>> SUNWpppdu       Solaris PPP daemon and utilities
>>> SUNWpppdt       Solaris PPP Tunneling
>
>   Leaving out ppp is not a good idea for connectivity options.

Agreed.

>>> SUNWbart        Basic Audit Reporting Tool
>
>   Built-in functionality similar to tripwire. Will be missed by
>   security conscious folks if left out.

OK by me.

>>> SUNWpppg        GNU utilities for PPP
>
>   We should include all the ppp stuff.

Yes.

>>> SUNWtcpd        tcpd - access control facility for internet services
>>> SUNWxcu6        XCU6 Utilities
>
>   People used to locking down their systems will miss tcpd.

Although I don't see it useful in the live context, I do see this being
useful in the newly installed image although to be honest, there will
be only a few services installed (although at least two of them, SSH
and Sendmail, do support TCP Wrappers).

>   The xcu6 packages provides the utilities under /usr/xpg6/bin.
>   Is it a good idea to leave that out ?

Given these provide the standards-compliant versions of already
existing commands, it's unclear to me the value of including this on
the CD.  These seem more at home in the repository.

dsc