OpenSolaris

heads up: integration of ITU construction tools (PSARC/2008/431)

Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:58:08 +1000
From: "James C. McPherson" <James.McPherson at sun dot com>
To: on-all at sun dot com, onnv-gate at onnv dot eng dot sun dot com
Subject: heads up: integration of ITU construction tools (PSARC/2008/431)

ITU construction tools (PSARC/2008/431) are now integrated into OpenSolaris.

If you've ever wanted to make a new driver or utility available to the user
at installation time, four tools are now available to make this a whole lot
easier:

	itu(1)
	mkcd(1)
	patchmedia(1)
	pkg2du(1)

all reside in usr/bin and significantly reduce the pain.

Running the tools with incorrect or no command line options produces
self-explanatory usage output.

If desired, you can use the tools (updatemedia in particular) to add
a driver update or ITU to an Solaris 10 Update installation image.

At present, these utilities are x86/x64 only, but adding support for
SPARC should be fairly easy to achieve.

Bugs or RFEs should be filed against

solaris/kernel/boot-x86

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James C. McPherson
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Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris
Sun Microsystems
http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp	http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:00:52 +1000
From: "James C. McPherson"
To: on-all@sun.com, onnv-gate@onnv.eng.sun.com
Subject: Re: heads up: integration of ITU construction tools (PSARC/2008/431)

Hi all,
one small correction - the patchmedia command referred to below
should actually have been updatemedia.

James

James C. McPherson wrote:
>> ITU construction tools (PSARC/2008/431) are now integrated into
> OpenSolaris.
>> If you've ever wanted to make a new driver or utility available to the user
> at installation time, four tools are now available to make this a whole lot
> easier:
>>     itu(1)
>     mkcd(1)
>     patchmedia(1)
>     pkg2du(1)
>> all reside in usr/bin and significantly reduce the pain.
>> Running the tools with incorrect or no command line options produces
> self-explanatory usage output.
>> If desired, you can use the tools (updatemedia in particular) to add
> a driver update or ITU to an Solaris 10 Update installation image.
>> At present, these utilities are x86/x64 only, but adding support for
> SPARC should be fairly easy to achieve.
>>> Bugs or RFEs should be filed against
>> solaris/kernel/boot-x86
>>>>>
~--
James C. McPherson
~--
Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris
Sun Microsystems
http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp	http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog