Bart Smaalders wrote: > 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.
Not only that but I don't see other vendors doing the type of thing Solaris has to do with patching, in fact some other systems don't have the concept of patches at all just new packages. I think is is also really important to keep in mind that the current package break down from some consolidations *will* have to be *significantly* changed (ON in particular) to make effective use of pkg(5) [it actually needs to change to make use of SVR4 better but there is no point in doing that now IMO ]. -- Darren J Moffat _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
