Danek Duvall writes: > The world we want to want to move away from is where everyone delivers > their own copy of something, which is slightly modified from the next guys, > has different bugs, etc, etc. See, for example, the thousand-and-one > copies of chk_update_drv() in drivers' postinstall scripts. Or bugs where > packages have delivered outdated copies of i.manifest.
I agree with that general idea. I think the previous poster's point, though, was that there are occasionally some things that are so unusual, so baroque, that only a hand-crafted upgrade handler can deal with them. Today, 'sudo' is one of those things, because we don't really support it, but there seem to be an inexhaustible supply of similar bits. In that class are likely third-party configuration files that change formats between versions and other one-off hacks. Cracking down on script abuse and duplication is a generally good thing, but I suspect that it's likely to cause a few odd things to pop up in other areas. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
