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Re: Handling commands missing from a given distribution ...

From: Sahoo <Sahoo_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:11:59 +0530

Kedar,

This will be a good feature. I think I mentioned about it in one of the
prelude ASARCH meetings.

Thanks,
Sahoo

Kedar Mhaswade wrote:
> Soliciting inputs from all of you regarding this interesting
> problem I am seeing with modular nature of the server.
>
> The inspiration is drawn from Ubuntu. On my Ubuntu machine, when I
> say "svn", it says:
>
> The program 'svn' is currently not installed. You can install it by
> typing:
>
> sudo apt-get install *subversion*
>
> Thus, it knows the "intent" of the user and helps him/her to get there.
>
> Wouldn't it be nice to have something similar for asadmin especially
> since we are in a diverse environments of distributions like web profile,
> full Java EE 6 profile, cluster-aware installation/domain,
> or just a domain that's missing certain "capabilities" that might be
> available in update center? e.g. you do
>
> asadmin migrate-timers ... on a domain/installation that has no
> EJB support and it comes back and says:
>
> EJB support is currently not installed. You can install it by typing
> pkg install glassfish-v3-ejb (or whatever that is).
>
> I am tempted to add this as a requirement in CLI spec. What are your
> thoughts? If we decide to do this, we need a lot of co-ordination across
> teams to do this.
>
> Thank you,
> Kedar