On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:08:05PM -0800, Joe Di Pol wrote: > Danek Duvall wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:22:37PM +0530, Gerard Jesudoss wrote: >> >>> Once thing we noticed is that the new custom action should also be known >>> to the server at the time of publishing the packages(ie, pkgsend). >>> Since this custom action is required to be run during install time, we >>> are trying to see if this server dependency can be avoided during package >>> publishing time? >>> >>> Can anyone let us know if this is the expected behavior or its a >>> bug(server requiring to know about custom action at package publishing >>> time) >> >> It's not a bug at the moment, but it'd be rerally nice to get rid fo the >> dependency. Could you file an RFE to track this? > > Isn't this really more than a "nice to"? Isn't it really a pretty bad bug?
It's annoying if you're adding new actions, yes. That's not a particularly common operation at the moment, though. Though honestly, I don't care too much whether it comes in as an rfe or a bug. > One common response to "no scripting" is "we can added new actions when > we need to". In the future when the world is running thousands of IPS > repositories then this bug makes it pretty impractical to add a new > action. It's a common response, but we tend to preferentially present other possibilities -- we'd like to limit the number of actions if we can. Operations which can be deferred until after installation probably should be. The points you raise in your other message are valid, but I don't think they require the creation of a new action. Danek _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
