On 02/23/13 02:33 PM, Erik Trauschke wrote:
This is a quick fix to change the default behavior of pkgrecv which
currently just syncs the latest packages.
It introduces a "-m latest" option to achieve the current default behavior.
https://cr.opensolaris.org/action/browse/pkg/erisch/14851733/webrev/
Can you explain the intent of the bugfix?
It seems to me, that this really helps if the packages being updated to
have dependencies specified very exactly; right down to the timestamp in
the FMRI.. I'm not sure if we ever specify dependencies this way -
pkgdepend doesn't seem to generate them, and I'm unaware of any build
systems that have manually introduced dependencies like this.
I'm not opposed to the change, but do I wonder if the user should
instead be using -r, that is, the problem isn't actually about
dependencies specified right down to the timestamp at all, but simply
that older versions of packages aren't being copied.
If the aim is to just pkgrecv enough of the repository to be able
install a given package and its dependencies, then -m all-timestamps
seems like overkill.
Perhaps I'm missing something? I was thinking that maybe this is for
stepping-stone builds, like S11 SRU 10, but in that case, I'd expect that,
pkgrecv -s <uri> -d <local> -r \
entire@0.175.0.10.0.5.0 entire@0.5.11,5.11-0.175.1.0.0.24.2
would still get me what I need?
cheers,
tim
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