On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 04:15:28PM -0700, Bart Smaalders wrote:
> >But that file still has to be executed once in order to complete the
> >package's configuration (or whatever you want to call it).
> 
> I see this as part of the application, NOT part of the package.

Fair point.  But should each application invent its own status reporting
mechanism?  Or should we provide a generic one?

BTW and FWIW, I agree that many "upgrade" actions can be performed
transparently by services without having to inform anyone.  When we had
to change idmapd(1M)'s DB schema we made it automatically upgrade its DB
schema and content, without needing any SVR4 class action scripts, and
we made it robust enough that noone should run into any problems.  I
just don't think that all upgrade considerations are that simple.

Nico
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