>> There's one complication here although the ramificiation may not be
>> serious, at least right now - a plain "pkg install SUNWipkg" after
>> installing 2008.05 will end up pulling [EMAIL PROTECTED]<latest build
>> #> due to the incorporation issue in 2008.05.
>
> Except this code won't run until you've already upgraded SUNWipkg to a
> revision that has the incorporation issue fixed.

Uh, good point. :-)

> What we want to do is to tell users to install the latest SUNWipkg that's
> appropriate for the constraints they have on their system.  But the only
> way we can determine that correctly is to go through the same codepath that
> the incorporations go through, so if you don't trust it, you don't trust
> it.
>
> Every other way of determining the version to use is based on one or more
> conventions that may or may not change wildly in the future.

Agreed.

dsc
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