>Bill Yan wrote: >>>> Has the project team been in contact with the pkg team to ensure that >>>> drivers installed using this tool won't be automatically removed from >>>> their installed locations during pkg image-update? >>> >>> If SVR4 packages are added and their files are orthogonal to IPS >>> packages, then IPS will leave those files alone. DDU will use the pkg >>> command to install IPS packages. > >Actually, SVR4 package files will be moved to "lost+found" by IPS image-update >in some cases - this has bitten users with the SVR4 installed NVIDIA driver >on a number of occasions, but I believe that's considered a bug in IPS, not >a part of it's architectural design.
Or any other files installed not by IPS. IPS also fails when you remove a file and IPS then tries to remove the package, at least during update-image. IPS should behave more like SVR4: if the directory is not empty, keep it. If a file was already removed, don't complain. Casper
