Philip Brown wrote:
So, how is switching to the "better technology" of IPS, going to solve this problem of broken patch creation process inside of Sun?
Because a "patch" in IPS is really an updated version of a package, so patching a system involves simply updating the package(s) in question to the desired version. Since IPS permits an arbitrary number of decimal points in package version numbers, any previous version of a package may be updated/patched (technically, not economically). We use incorporate dependencies to specify the version of a package; this requires the package iff present to be at the specified version at the specified resolution. In other words, if the incorporate dependency is on pkg [email protected], if package A is installed versions 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.99, etc are ok, but 1.1* or 1.3* are not. - 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
