* Tim Knitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-06 17:07]:
> After talking with a few interested parties it has become clear that
> we don't want to have two ways of doing the same thing, pkg
> image-update and beadm upgrade. Not sure they would be considered the
> same operation since beadm upgrade could be seen as upgrading the Boot
> Environment and making modifications to that BE so it can be a
> bootable instance of opensolaris. Where image-update, in its current
> form, seems to be more in line with updating the opensolaris image
> with the latest packages and not support modifying the Boot
> Environment. Now pkg image-update could be enhanced/modified to do
> what beadm upgrade was designed for and we could scrap beadm upgrade
> altogether however I would like to seek input as to why that would be
> the best way to go.

  pkg will call libbe.  image-update will be extended to use libbe
  functionality as part of its operation.

  beadm will not call pkg.  beadm, whatever functions it might have,
  does not need an upgrade subcommand.

  - Stephen
  
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