Dan Price wrote: > On Mon 28 Jul 2008 at 12:06PM, Dave Miner wrote: >> 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 agree that the perfect should not be the enemy of the good > here? Telling people to review *something* is better than doing > nothing, then waiting for a mechanism that (as Shawn pointed out) we > don't really have. > > We have what's left of this week to do something here for the BTS > release. I'd like to close this issue so that I can get to code review > and get this in. If there are strong objections, I'd like folks to > speak up by Noon PT tomorrow (thursday). > > I'm seeking agreement that we're going to place the following message > and question in the image-update path: > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WARNING: image-update of a system should be performed only after reviewing > upgrade notes posted at: > > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/resources/rn3/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Have you reviewed the upgrade notes? [y,n,q] > > > I'm working to ensure that this message fires at the correct times, and > have noted to the GUI folks that they should do likewise.
I'm definitely in agreement with it, especially since your last set of changes. While it isn't the right "long-term" solution probably, we need something now. -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
