On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:35:56 +1200 Ian Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Roman Morokutti wrote:
> > What I wanted to stress out a bit, was that
> > blastwave should take more effort in investigating
> > of which packages are already installed from
> > SUN in their default directories. This would avoid
> > tremendously redundant packages, and would also save
> > a lot of space on the HD.
> >
> Yes but in which version of Solaris? Don't forget Blastwave packages
> work on all versions Solaris 8 and up.
>
> Tracking the Sun packages would require a huge test matrix, not only
> released versions, but updates and patches would have to be tracked and
> tested.
That's only required if you only track dependencies in the
database. If you're willing to check what's actually installed to meet
the dependencies, it gets much simpler. Of course, you may still wind
up installing "redundant" software because the Solaris-installed
version of something isn't recent enough to meet the requirements at
hand, but there's no way to avoid that.
<mike
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