[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> So uninstall your incorporations before upgrading if your the new
> catalog doesn't have your previous versions, then?
> 
> Hm.
> 
> -j
> 
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 09:17:54AM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>> This looks okay to me.  Just to make sure I understand, 3704 just
>>> covers the fact that we have no top level handler for the
>>> InventoryException, correct?  I didn't see anything that addressed
>>> optional dependency lookup, but I thought I'd ask just to be sure.
>> I asked Bart about the optional dependency loading, his response was:
>>
>> "Because if your new pkg plan requires installation of a package,
>> you need to make sure it's the right version wrt any optional 
>> dependencies on that package."
>>
>> In short, I took that to mean I needed to leave the optional dependency 
>> loading alone.
>>
>> This does mean that the client will fail, but at least it will fail and 
>> the user will know why.
>>
>> Cheers,

I experimented with this last night.  If you make the repo that has only
the new packages the preferred repo and and the old one another 
authority, it works.

- Bart

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Bart Smaalders                  Solaris Kernel Performance
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