On Fri 25 Jul 2008 at 05:57PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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).
Yes, good point, will fix.
> 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...
I think that's a fair question. We're starting to get some clarity
about what we can and cannot do for November's release-- I think we
need to look at factoring in this need in our planning. At the moment,
the answer is that while we are confident that the day will arrive when
we can lift this message, we don't know when that day is. My guess
is that it's going to be a pain point for a couple of more months.
> Doesn't it have more affinity to indiana or the OpenSolaris distro
> though? ipkg is ostensibly portable, and the image-update subcommand is
That's a good point. I'll see if I can come up with some sensible way
to guess that the current thing is "indiana" and fire the message
based on that.
> 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.
I think one could make the argument that it'd be better to leave this
fix unimplemented, so that we keep living the pain, and so that it goads
us into correcting this more deeply sooner. Depending what others
think, I can shelve this as needed. I felt compelled to tackle this
out of sympathy for the users who are trying to be early adopters and
are bricking their systems.
> 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.
I agree, and thanks for trying to put yourself in the shoes of others
when considering this stuff. It helps a lot.
-dp
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Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - blogs.sun.com/dp
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