On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński <[email protected]> wrote: > Maintainers, how do you feel about it, is it helping, or is it adding > to confusion?
No, I think it is now clearer. Also, subscribing to named releases instead of an alias is likely a good thing in the long run. We are free to introduce fairly radical changes between, say, Dublin and Kiel, so having one suddenly replace the other because of subscription to an aliased catalog isn't what we want. A very simple addition to pkgutil will make moving to a new release more obvious: 1. Look for $catalog_url/UPGRADE_AVAILABLE (name is for discussion purposes, not a real proposal). 2. If found, display with pause before doing new package actions. So, when we're ready to have people move from Dublin to the next release, we place this file and pkgutil will now tell people that there is a newer catalog they should subscribe to. We can use this file to point of some of the major differences between releases or other things that have the potential to cause aggravation at the local site. I'll code the pkgutil bits if this is deemed a worthwhile approach. Thanks -Ben _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
