On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 02:31:10PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > Will Fiveash wrote: > > That brings up another question. Let's say that the currently active BE > > doesn't have all the packages listed in redistributable installed and > > one updates a new BE as I described earlier. I was under the impression > > that doing a pkg install of pkg:entire only updates installed packages > > and doesn't install new ones whereas pkg install pkg:redistributable > > installs the missing packages. Am I right in thinking this? > > Yes, because entire is just an incorporation that constrains the versions of > the packages that can be or are installed. In comparison, redistributable > is a 'group package' that has all of its packages as required dependencies.
Mmm, I find your description of entire a bit confusing when you write "that can be". I interpret that to mean that it would install packages listed in its contents that are not currently installed which is different behavior than what I previously described. -- Will Fiveash Sun Microsystems Inc. http://opensolaris.org/os/project/kerberos/ Sent from mutt, a sweet ASCII MUA
