> Where can I find documentation, on what these IPS "actions" are?
Pull a clone of the the pkg gate. The actions are in
src/modules/actions
> And beyond that, how what they do, somehow could not be done with a well
> written SVR4 "class action script"?
This isn't a matter of could not be done. Rather, as a consequence of
the other design goals that we've chosen for IPS, this shall not be
done.
> It's NO FUN to write a complex pre or postinstall script from scratch.
IPS will spare you from this agony.
> You complain, "people dont do it right", but you don't show them HOW
> to "do it right" !!
You're making a duplicitous argument. You accuse Sun of being
incompetent and unable to use their own tools. If you honestly believed
that, how could you possibly argue that Sun should also be showing
people how to use these tools that you allege they don't or can't
properly use? Just a few of the claims you've made:
That's what patching is for. Done RIGHT, that is. Sun does patching...
poorly. But that's a procedural problem within Sun, imo.
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sun was all ready to fix that "problem" with sol10 FCS. Too bad they
botched it.
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The tools arent so much broken, as the human usage of them.
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> It seems highly unreasonable to knock SVR4 pkging as a problem, "because
> people arent using it right, for zones/SMF".. when Sun DOESNT PROVIDE a
> "RIGHT" way for people to use ?!?!?
As Bart has repeatedly stated: We're changing the tools so that they may
only be used correctly. This means that even if Sun is as incompetent
as you claim, we'll be able to cleanly generate packages and get
updates to our customers properly. This sounds like something that even
you could agree with.
-j
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