On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 08:01:01PM -0800, Chris Quenelle wrote: > My plan for dependencies was to create a meta-package of some > kind by hand that listed the specific versions of all 100ish > packages we have. So essentially the early releases would > be an all-or-nothing sort of thing, just like we have today. > > Does that approach let us get away without adding extra > explicit dependencies? It seems like it should.
As long as you're quite clear that the only supported thing to do is to install and upgrade that top-level package, and that currently the only upgrade option is to upgrade to latest, then yes, it'll do for now. We need incorporations in order to be able to really do the right thing with the cluster-like package; that's something Stephen's working on. And ultimately, you should be able to upgrade a single package inside the cluster and be confident that that upgrade upgraded other packages it needed as well, but you'd need true dependencies for that. And, of course, you won't have dependencies on the core packages, so you'd be able to install without having, say, SUNWcsl on the system, which probably won't work too well. ;) But we can probably assume, for now, that people aren't going to do that. :) Danek _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
