UNIX admin wrote:
So now we have some new binaries, some data files
that have not changed,
some binaries that are the same again.
Patch or Package ?
The documentation clearly states that a patch must never deliver new
functionality.
What documentation is that? It's clearly buggy.
And I quote:
"A patch must not change the intended delivered behavior of the packageĀit
is not a mechanism for installing new features. A patch is used to repair
objects installed on the system."
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0406/6mg76sth4?a=view#indexterm-309
Perhaps the documentation is buggy as you say; although it makes sense, at
least to me, that a patch should *repair* and not *deliver new
functionality*. Perhaps I misunderstood the above.
Either way, I'd really appreciate if you could clarify this, and I'm quite
confident that the community at large would benefit from the clarification
of the above as well.
Thank you kindly in advance.
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