On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Philip Brown wrote: >> >> It's not THAT big of a change. You can just use the same mechanisms that IPS >> plans to use. >> pkg-get calls pkgadd. >> pkgadd has already been reworked to be a LITTLE more zone friendly, with >> sol10. >> It could be reworked further, to use the exact same zone-friendly mechanisms >> planned for IPS. >> (running pre/postinstall scripts through SMF, rather than raw, etc, etc) >> That's not that much more work, compared to writing and debugging a whole >> new packaging system. > > That doesn't help the problem that Sun faces that ISVs or other > repositories like Blastwave or sunfreeware.com don't face: patching and > the fact that the current patchadd/pkgadd are mostly unaware of each other.
So fix patching. Every time I hear this argument it makes me wonder whether something's being built to meet the needs of users or not. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
