* Danek Duvall ([email protected]) wrote: > Nirmal Agarwal wrote: > > > Sorry for not being too explicit in the previous mail. I wanted to > > understand the use of "--be-name" with "pkg install" command (and > > not with pkg image-update.). > > It's exactly the same. Try to forget, if you can, the fact that > image-update used to always create a new boot environment, and install > never did. Now, both will do so if necessary, and only if necessary. That > necessity is determined by whether any actions tagged with reboot-needed > are being updated and the operation is being done on the live root. > > Thus, if image-update would only bring you a new version of the compilers > and openoffice, it won't bother with a new BE, but if you say "pkg install > ent...@new-build", then you'll get a new boot environment. You kinda have > to know in advance whether a new boot environment will be created to know > whether the --be-name option will be useful.
[sorry I'm late to this discussion, I was on vacation] That seems pretty unuseful and not very user friendly to have to know before hand whether or not one needs the --be-name option for pkg install. Are there any plans to make this more usable to an end-user so that they don't have to be the equivalent of a mind-reader? Cheers, -- Glenn _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
