[OmniOS-discuss] Installer Crashes While 'Probing for DeviceNodes'

Kent Watsen kent at watsen.net
Thu Oct 4 19:16:08 EDT 2012


On 10/4/12 6:54 PM, Eric Sproul wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Paul B. Henson <henson at acm.org> wrote:
>> Is there an easy way to tell what version of upstream illumos-gate a given
>> version of OmniOS is based on? When you guys sync up, do you pull in
>> everything (so you could say OmniOS X is current as of illumos-gate commit
>> Y, and know all commits prior to Y are included) or do you cherry pick which
>> commits to pull in?
> Unfortunately there isn't an easy way.  It might be possible to
> include that in our /etc/release but I think that would require
> tracking the illumos-gate IDs separately from illumos-omnios ones.
> It's the latter that get encoded in various places (uname -v,
> /etc/motd) depending on when they are built.

I'd be interested in this as well.  It seems similar to how OI could 
indicate it was pulling from ON b151

Thanks,
Kent



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