Brock Pytlik wrote: > jan damborsky wrote: >> Bart Smaalders wrote: >> >>> Jason Zhao wrote: >>> >>>> By adding this, it will be convenient for administrator. >>>> Especially, when >>>> there is some packages were added by "pkgadd", but there is no >>>> index for >>>> these packages in /var/pkg, and most of important the administrator >>>> know >>>> what he needs to do and what he is doing. It will be easy to only >>>> add one >>>> single package, otherwise, it will be time consuming to add them all. >>>> >>> > >>> >>> >>>> Anyway, it brings flexible works. >>>> >>> So does using a binary editor on your raw disk to modify your >>> filesystem. It still doesn't mean it's a good idea. >>> >> >> But it definitely doesn't imply it is a bad idea. >> If I know what/why/how, I should be allowed to do this. >> I think that following statement better explains >> the philosophy I prefer as far as taking >> restrictive versus liberal approach is concerned: >> > > From what I've seen from IPS so far, there are two (main) purposes to > a packaging system. 1) Put bits on disk. 2) Make sure the installed > bits work. What we've said is that we can't ensure 2 with a no-deps > option, which reduces IPS to simply doing 1. If 2 isn't important to > your scenario, by all means, use tar balls or some other method to > accomplish getting the bits on to the disk, but I think we have higher > goals for IPS than a glorified tar ball deliverer. What a dependency > should mean is, "without X, I can not run as specified, period". As > others have mentioned, there may well be bugs in our packaging, please > file bugs against those as you encounter them.
Done :-) 6479 & 6484 filed. > We're not requiring any customer/client to use pkg to install > software. What I do think we're saying is that if you want to use pkg > to help make sure you've got a working system, you have to play by the > rules, or convince us that the rules need to be changed. Just out of curiosity, are those rules captured somewhere ? I mean is there any design specification I might take a look at when I am not sure and I would like to verify if I don't play by the rules or if new bug was encountered ? Thank you, Jan _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
