Bart Smaalders wrote: > Dave Miner wrote: > >> Reality is that users will have layered software beyond the OS that will >> be in those other formats, no matter how easy IPS publication might be. >> Denying the capability to include those in an automated deployment >> product won't work. > > SVr4 packages do not correctly handle conflicts between packages, > hence all the auditing in ON builds and RE. Do you expect IPS > to manage this situation? What about tarballs that conflict > w/ the packages already on the system? >
No, I do not expect IPS to manage this situation, any more than I expect it to manage the data in my home directory. Users doing this will have to understand the issues involved, to be sure, but most of the interesting cases involve private troves of packages that can (and must be able to) be used with OpenSolaris without conversion in order to start adopting it. > I'm pretty hesitant to promise much in this space beyond > the ability to place tarballs or SVr4 packages into areas that are > not also populated w/ IPS packages. > No, we should not promise much, but to have these tools pretend that the only interesting content is in IPS will stifle their usefulness and merely lead to either alternatives cropping up, or a lack of OpenSolaris deployment. I don't regard either one as a positive outcome. Dave
