On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 10:36:16AM -0400, Dave Miner wrote: > In most cases, I believe the preference would be to deliver the file in > fragments and provide SMF services to assemble the files (as in the > prior paragraph) rather than encoding that many actions into the > packaging system.
Understood, but for common, editable files I think IPS actions would be better for the simple reason that that should help avoid code duplication. > >Incidentally, a while back I posted a prototype of a generic self- > >assembly service that allows re-use of SVR4 class action and post* > >scripts (but not pre*, nor checkinstall, nor request). There seems to > >have been no interest. > > From my perspective, I found that to be not all that interesting > because it extends yet further the existing problem of running those > scripts in contexts for which they were neither designed nor tested by > introducing yet a new context with slightly different semantics. True, it does do that, though it does try hard to simulate one existing context (install into a live image). _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
