On 31/07/2008, at 9:39 PM, John Rice wrote: > Thanks for the clarification Dan. So at present due to a series of bug > fixes Update All is fine, but in future may not be. > > This is a certainly a real problem. If we warn the users then what are > we meant to tell them? And more importantly what are they meant to > look for? > > Something along the lines of: > "Update All will update all your packages but may require some > manual steps, > please refer to the release notes to see if this is the case for this > Update."
I'm a little worried generally about the user experience of image- update too. What we have now essentially allows the average user to upgrade their entire image to a non-milestone build. By non-milestone build, I mean any of the builds leading up to the official 2008.11 release. What we need, in my mind, both with pkg(1) and packagemanager(1) is some acknowledgement that they're updating to something that hasn't had a lot of testing, is currently in development and may have a lot of instabilities. I think we need a better story there for how we want to migrate people through the development builds, versus migrating people from milestone release to milestone release. Glynn _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
