On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, T.J. Yang wrote: > 6. Any plan to make the bootstrap-plaform??.sh a native package to a > perticular platform ? ie, pkgadd -d ./openpkg.pkg or swinstall > openpkg.depot. samba web site has some example script on how to do > this.
Hello, Well, we considered this too but after thinking twice we concluded that this can result in serious problems. I don't know anything about the native HP/UX package mechanism but in others like Debian GNU/Linux's dpkg all files of an installed package are registered in some kind of database. Now think about upgrading the bootstrap package itself (called 'openpkg') using its very own upgrade mechanism. As a result all changes related to the upgrade (new files, some others do not exist anymore in the new release, different checksums, file sizes and timestamps, ...) are to be updated in OpenPKG's own package database only. As the native package mechanism is not touched in any way it will still only 'know' about it old installation. Time after time, upgrade after upgrade, informations in both package databases will differ more and more which is not a good thing. Thus we decided to keep things as they are right now. Cheers, Christoph -- Christoph Schug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cable & Wireless Deutschland - Landsberger Strasse 155 - D-80687 Muenchen ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org Developer Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
