On Wed 03 Sep 2008 at 09:39PM, Danek Duvall wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 01:21:05PM +0900, Fuyuki Hasegawa - Sun Microsystems
> wrote:
>
> > I heard this from OS.o user. Is there a bug filed already?
> > When pkg install failed halfway, "pkg list" doesn't show the pkg,
> > but the halfway installed files remains on the system, and it
> > sometimes causes a problem for the 2nd pkg install trial.
>
> The user can rollback to the snapshot that was taken before package
> install, though this may cause issues with files -- such as log files,
> mail spool files, etc -- that changed between the snapshot and the
> rollback.
>
> There is no other recourse, and we're not planning on any. ZFS is the way
> to get out of this situation. Doing so perhaps could be easier, and
> certainly we need to make it safer, but that will come.
I thought we had imagined a "broken" state?
-dp
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