Milan Jurik wrote: >> Then I suggest the reverting to a previous environment to effect backout >> is the right answer. >> > > Yes, completely, loosing unrelevant changes made by admins. > >> Having patches backout themselves is not sustainable. >> > > Does it mean Sun wasn't able to deliver sustaining for its products for > last 20 years? Yes, there were and are mistakes, but your proposal will > do mistakes by design. >
Milan, our proposal would work exactly as specified. Not almost. Not most of the time. Sun has released some patches 8 times before getting all the details right. Our assertion is that shipping custom, handwritten programs w/ each patch to apply and unapply them is not a feasible approach. You may disagree. But I've spoken to many many customers, and Solaris's patching story is not considered one of it's strengths. Yes, the system will behave differently than before. Get used to it. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird." _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
