Nicholas Solter wrote: > Stephen Hahn wrote: >> * Nicholas Solter <[email protected]> [2008-11-25 20:39]: >>> Since we have to figure this out for clustering in the short term, I >>> guess we'll need a workaround. Since it sounds like the namespace option >>> you mentioned above isn't yet available, can you give some more detail >>> on the workarounds that are available now? Is there one in particular >>> that would be favored/recommended by the IPS team? What do you think >>> about Ed's proposal for a "removal metapackage?" >> For now, write an uninstall script and document it for your beta >> customers. Do not create a strange dependency graph, as escaping such >> a graph will be difficult. > > Stephen, Bart, et. al. > > We've been working on this, and we're fine using install and uninstall > scripts to handle our postinstall and preremove scripting needs. > > But this approach seems to break down with image-update. There doesn't > seem to be a hook to do our preremove/postinstall processing during an > image-update. > > Any suggestions?
Perhaps we're not being clear. Software that relies on automated execution of scripts in installation or upgrade context will not work. Software should plan on self-assembling after upgrade; any new software should be capable of reading old config. files and converting them. Stephen's comments pertained to an uninstall script. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance [email protected] http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird." _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
