On 12/17/08 16:48, Shawn Walker wrote: > Padraig O'Briain wrote: >> The webrev http://cr.opensolaris.org/~padraig/ips-5873-v1/ fixes >> bug 5873 - No need to refresh catalogs when installing a package. > > 1) you shouldn't assume people are running updatemanager or the cron > refresh thing > > 2) we specifically made the change to have the system automatically > refresh catalogs during install, etc. some months ago > > 3) changing this behaviour would mean the cli/gui no longer have > consistent behaviour > > However, I could be convinced that you could skip this if you perform > a catalog refresh at least once at some point after startup or on the > first install/update. We should not be relying on any other program > (such as updatemanager) that may or may not be running to do this. > > Arguably, if the performance of refresh catalog is the issue, I'd > rather fix that. It should be a relatively quick operation.
I have logged bug 5900 on this. What is the consequence of not refreshing the catalog when installing or updating a package? > > Looking for feedback from other team members. > > Cheers, _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
