Dan Price wrote: > 2658 Until image-update is fully automated, it should point users to docs, > and require them to say "yes" > http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=2658 > > Comments, please? Wordsmithing, etc. I totally made up the URL, > so pointers to the right location are appreciated. > > $ pkg image-update -n > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WARNING: image-updating a system should be performed only after reviewing > upgrade notes posted at: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/pkg/upgrade > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Have you reviewed the upgrade notes? [y,n,q] y > Proceeding with update. > > I will also provide a '-y' flag to answer yes to the question > automatically. > > As I said in the bug report, I hate having to do this, but I hate > bricking people's systems even more. >
As someone who may represent your typical end user, I'd say this looks good to me. It may be better to not turn "image-update" into a verb though (this English nuance may confuse some). Is there some upgrade point after which pkg can automatically *not* show this message and it will be safe to upgrade? I guess that's the "fully automated" part of the bug... With regard to the URL, it *should* be something as easy as that. Doesn't it have more affinity to indiana or the OpenSolaris distro though? ipkg is ostensibly portable, and the image-update subcommand is somewhat OpenSolaris specific. There appears to be an official (yet unmaintained) doc here: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/IPS/ggfwk.html The last time I needed to find the notes on the update, I had to dig into the mail archives. I didn't mind a slight bit of pain from the initial release, but it seems each image-update is requiring a separate workaround or two. I even read things carefully and got hung up on updating SUNWipkg, since it wasn't obvious that it was updating to a newer timestamp of the same version. If I were more like the end users we'd like to have, I don't quite know what I'd do if I were at the 2008.05. In any event, the URL should tell someone how to get from where they are to where they're trying to update to; it shouldn't be the typical-patchadd-style-readme-LIFO-log of a series of steps to go from one release to the next. Hope the feedback helps, - Matt -- Matt Ingenthron - Web Infrastructure Architect Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://blogs.sun.com/mingenthron/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 310-242-6439 _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
