Jack Schwartz wrote:
Hi everyone.
Sometimes installer environments lack a needed driver to complete the
installation. The Driver Update project adds packages with such drivers
to the booted environment before starting the installation. For AI,
manually-added drivers are specified in the manifest. IPS packages are
specified using P5I files. (Drivers can also be searched-for, like the
current DDU does today.)
Question: What is the best way to handle the situation where the
beginning environment specifies a publisher with a name and URL-A, and a
P5I file given in the manifest specifies the same publisher name with
URL-B?
The packagemanager (b127) neatly skirts around this issue by not
allowing such a clash. Should Driver Update do the same?
I ask because manually running pkg set-publisher to a new publisher
(e.g. going to pkg.opensolaris.org/dev from p.o.o./release) and then
doing a pkg image-update is allowed. (... or did I hear that this just
changed?)
If the answer is yes and Driver Update is allowed to do the update,
should the new publisher be kept on the system, or should the publisher
be reverted back to the old one? Either way, some installed package
will be put out of sync with the current publisher. (I would think that
in most cases, one of the two URLs would be a more evolved version of
the other, and that the one being set by Driver Update is the newer one;
but these could be invalid assumptions.)
If there's a conflict with an existing publisher, there's no way to
guarantee that the new URI is correct or that the old one wouldn't work
just as well.
Dan, I, and Stephen have discussed how to deal with these conflicts but
I don't believe we have good answers yet.
In the short term, my personal suggestion would be to abort on
conflicts, or continue and warn the user that the operation may not succeed.
I do not believe that you want to silently, automatically change the
origins or mirrors for the publisher.
Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
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