Garrett D'Amore writes:
> I have since learned, from the project team, that this problem is
> primarily centered around solving issues with Live Upgrade. They are in
> a bind on timing, because they are coming up on a key deliverable date.
> Redesign of the file format, and resetting the testing that has already
> been done, would be detrimental to some key deliverables around Live
> Upgrade and Solaris 10.
I'd be mostly happy with that or with the original proposal to make
these new things Committed option-arguments.
I hope the project team has considered this issue carefully, but I
think one of the unfortunate artifacts here is that (unless there are
some fancy tricks involved), doing this will require that there be ON
patches released for both S8 and S9 to upgrade cpio in order to allow
those special LU packages (using the new -H argument) to continue to
be used to upgrade to modern S10 releases. Don't forget that
SUNWlu{u,r,cfg} must all install and run on release N-2 in order to
upgrade to release N.
As an outsider, it seems to me that it must almost certainly be
simpler to rewrite the handful of places that currently use cpio to
use pax instead than to do three backports and separate patch
releases. But what do I know ...
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