James Carlson wrote:
> The other part of your question has to do with patches. Patches are
> collections of sparse packages. They are crafted as part of the
> update creation process. The normal development process, though, does
> *NOT* create patches. There are no patches for Nevada or
> OpenSolaris. Instead, new full packages are built each time, and you
> must upgrade between builds.
And patches are an artifact of Sun's extended SVR4 packaging - the IPS
system used in the OpenSolaris OS will not have patches, but instead new
package versions you download from the repository. IPS will be smart
enough to only download the files that have changed from the package
version you have, giving that benefit of patches, without much of the
pain our patching system has imposed.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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