Shawn Walker wrote: > Dave Miner wrote: >> Dan Price wrote: >>> On Fri 25 Jul 2008 at 07:57PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>>> As I said in the bug report, I hate having to do this, but I hate >>>>> bricking people's systems even more. >>>> Perhaps we do need to do this now but do we know from either Ethan >>>> and/or Jan where we are with >>>> >>>> 1979 libbe: be_activate needs to run installgrub >>>> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=1979 >>>> >>>> as I think it would be obviously better to just fix the issue. :-) >>>> >>>> I suppose refering to a URL on opensolaris.org is fine although I'm >>>> wondering if it's time to begin delivering knowledge articles under >>>> sun.com/msg. >>> Brock pointed out to me that current users won't get this message >>> anyway, since they won't be running the bits that contain the >>> message if they just type 'image-update' without first updating >>> their packaging bits to get the new 'pkg' which contains the >>> message. >>> >>> I was specifically designing this for the *next* nasty flag day, >>> not for the one we have now. Although, if we were going to e.g. >>> issue an updated 2008.05 based ISO, then it'd be nice to get this >>> fix in there. >>> >> We are, that's the back-to-school thing, and it is expected to be in >> there. The intention is to replace the main download image with that one. >> >> However, I agree that we are likely to continue to run into flag-day >> issues occasionally, and it would be nice to have a way to notify users >> of them more directly. I'm not sure the generic "review the notes" >> message is going to do it, though; can we use the feed stuff that >> Shawn's adding in some way here to get more specific and perhaps make >> the message only appear when we believe there's a reason? > > There is a critical update flag based on "critical actions" in the > manifest of a package that causes the rss feed to indicate an entry for > a related update was critical. However, I'm guessing it wasn't intended > to be used for "flag days." In addition, while the feed supports it, we > currently don't have any actions that get marked as critical. > > Either way, it seems like we need a tag or attribute for a pkg that > indicates that such an update is a major event for the build version > tree that it is part of. The rss feed could do something appropriate > with it and the client could take advantage of it as well. > > You'd have to expound on exactly what you think the feed might do in > response... >
I was thinking that the data included in such a flag day would be leveraged across the feed (so that those who are just subscribed to it out of interest) as well as the pkg CLI & GUI. Although the mention that someone (David?) made of using knowledge articles could just mean that the data is a link to that content. Dave _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
