On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Shawn Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > Alexander Vlasov wrote: >> >> Lurie wrote: >>>> >>>> Yes.. writing an entire package manager from the >>>> ground up is *less* work than maintaining the patches. >>> >>> This is called "moving forward", IPS is based on new novel ideas, a >>> secure package manager without any arbitrary post/pre-install scripts, >> >> That's why lots of packages deliver their own SMF service which runs only >> once. > > ...which is better because those SMF scripts: > > * can run at "boot", which fits correctly with a zfs-based rollback setup >
Which means those packages will require system reboot not unlike Windoze! Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
