On Jun 19, 2009, at 4:16 PM, Evan Layton wrote: > Danek Duvall wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:36:59AM -0600, Evan Layton wrote: >>> (http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/CVERS/CVERS-FUNC/) >> I think if you're going to allow the install to move forward after a >> mismatch, it really needs to be opt-in, not opt-out. Don't make it >> easy >> for the customer to screw their system up. Ultimately, I think the >> spec >> needs a solid justification as to why the install should be allowed >> to >> proceed after a mismatch is discovered. It sounded like you had a >> developer ease-of-use argument, but I don't see that here. We had >> also >> talked about limiting continuation to the situation where you are >> booted >> from an older version than you're trying to install. > > We want to continue the installation if at all possible since the > user has asked for an installation. Most of the time this will be an > automated install and the user will not be expecting to have to do > interaction to complete an installation. Therefore we will continue > the installation in this case and the user will be warned and the > error or warning will be logged.
Yes, the user requested an install, but there is possibly significant risk involved due to the mismatch. Do we really want an automated possibly broken install? Cheers, -- Shawn Walker
