Glenn Glazer wrote: > Hi, Darren, Bart. > > I think the problem is that I was understanding IPS to be something a > little more powerful than what it seems to be, along the lines of pkgadd > -d URL or several similar Linux utilities that actually reach out into > the net to get the latest versions of packages.
Yes, IPS does exactly this. > In such a context, I > could see (though not like) a script which upon invocation by the > start/refresh, looks for the latest providers and downloads them. Of course one could write such a thing.... but this isn't really an IPS problem. > OTOH, it still seems to me that you will be checking for something > even after you've found it (e.g., the first restart/refresh after install), > so you may wish to have the first restart make a lock file or something > that indicates that the install has already happened and that it doesn't > need to recheck for the providers. And how would this lock file get removed? - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird."
