On 26 May 2012, at 17:46, Garrett D'Amore wrote:

> sysidtool (where this lives) is not part of illumos-gate.  Its a part of 
> OpenIndiana.  I'm having trouble locating the sources they used for this.  
> I'm not entirely certain the source for it *is* open.  Evidently it was part 
> of the installer and was never opened up.  I'm a little dismayed about this 
> -- I never realized this to be the case, although admittedly there are 
> distributions which make no use of sysidtool at all.

I'm not sure where the sysidcfg code lives (Will have to have a rummage) but 
I've never liked the way any of it works and I'm sure I'm not alone.

We (OpenIndiana) may want to adopt the approach OmniOS took which is to get rid 
of it and use something much simpler. If the OmniOS approach is sufficiently 
good enough for most people then we could just import it. I imagine adding 
compatibility with the sysidcfg file would be pretty trivial if anyone really 
cared about it.

Alasdair



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