Draft opinion (PSARC 2005/695)

[Brian Utterback]

John Plocher wrote:
> James Carlson wrote:

>> This skips over a fundamental question: how does any user know which
>> bit belongs with which consolidation in the WOS?

> 
> Right now, they can either use the Product Registry or grovel thru
> /var/sadm/install/contents.  Or, better, they could read the release
> notes and other product literature that came with the product they
> acquired to see what was in it.

Really? Using Jim's example, I in the contents file I can see that
/usr/sfw/sbin/tcpd is part of the SUNWtcpd package. Not much progress
there. Using pkginfo I can find out that on my system, tcpd is
used for "access control facility for internet services" and apparently
was made on January 21, 2005. Using prodreg, I don't see anything more.

So, as using your approach, I have no more info about which
consolidation delivered tcpd as I had before.

Now, in the case of tcpd, I can go to the OpenSolaris source browser
and find tcpd there, so I know that tcpd is in the ON consolidation,
but suppose the file I was interested in was /kernel/drv/sparcv9/qlc?
The contents file would show the package as SUNWqlc which is the
"Qlogic ISP 2200/2202 Fibre Channel Device Driver", but what
consolidation does it come from? The source browser doesn't help
at all in this case.

There doesn't seem to be a definitive list, but my calculations
there are about 50 consolidations that go into Solaris.

-- 
blu

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official says "If you aren't doing anything wrong, then you have
nothing to worry about."
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