2008/5/16 Jordan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > That's my fear too. I suspect that the result will be that it will be > clarified that IPS's scope is quite limited, in some areas significantly > more constrained than pkgadd or rpm. Wearing my application provider hat, > I'll work around that, probably by writing my own installer. Wearing my > technologist hat, I'll be disappointed.
You keep saying that rpm isn't constrained in the same way, how so? As far as I'm aware, rpm doesn't have a "partially installed" state and has very limited tracking of the status of a package. It's either installed, or it isn't. Yes it allows you to run arbitrary scripts during the install process, but that functionality isn't really rpm, that's what the program is providing. -- Shawn Walker "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
