Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> wrote: > Stefan Parvu wrote: > > How IPS handles the process of applying patched ? AFAIK OSOL does not > > really have the concept > > of a patch, right ? Or ? > > Right - IPS simply has new versions of packages, in which the packaging system > determines which files are different from what you've already installed and > just > downloads those, unlike SVR4 where you download a patch containing every > change > since the base package release, even if you're only upgrading from patch -94 > to > -95 and already have most of the changed files downloaded & installed, and the > patch builder is responsible for determining which files were changed by a > putback and need to be included in a patch (mistakes have happened there > sometimes).
You missunderstand the SVr4 packaging system. It does not include the concept of patching. "patchadd" is a script on top of the packaging system. It you like to get rid of something "evil", just throw away this script.... Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
