[osol-discuss] Packaging was Re: Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-17 Thread Shawn Walker
Alexander Vlasov wrote: Have you tried aptitude? Yes, but it is neither a cli nor a gui. It's more of a terminal program. In addition, it exposes the internal of the underlying packaging system, something I tend to disagree with. However, it might be nice to have a similar terminal

[osol-discuss] Packaging was Re: Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-06 Thread Shawn Walker
Moinak Ghosh wrote: On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Shawn Walker swal...@opensolaris.org wrote: Alexander Vlasov wrote: Lurie wrote: That's why lots of packages deliver their own SMF service which runs only once. ...which is better because those SMF scripts: * can run at boot, which fits

Re: [osol-discuss] Packaging was Re: Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-06 Thread Shawn Walker
Moinak Ghosh wrote: On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Shawn Walker swal...@opensolaris.org wrote: Moinak Ghosh wrote: Which means those packages will require system reboot not unlike Windoze! First, how else can you ensure the scripts correctly run without having the new environment

Re: [osol-discuss] Packaging was Re: Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-06 Thread Sebastien Roy
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 12:23 -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: Moinak Ghosh wrote: On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Shawn Walker swal...@opensolaris.org wrote: Alexander Vlasov wrote: Lurie wrote: That's why lots of packages deliver their own SMF service which runs only once. ...which is

Re: [osol-discuss] Packaging was Re: Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-06 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Shawn Walker swal...@opensolaris.org wrote: Moinak Ghosh wrote: On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Shawn Walker swal...@opensolaris.org wrote: Alexander Vlasov wrote: Lurie wrote: That's why lots of packages deliver their own SMF service which runs only

Re: [osol-discuss] Packaging was Re: Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-06 Thread Shawn Walker
Sebastien Roy wrote: I was under the impression that an IPS package manifest contained the set of services to be automatically imported and started as part of package installation, or temporarily disabled during package upgrade, etc. Where does one get the idea that a reboot is required for a

Re: [osol-discuss] Packaging was Re: Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-06 Thread Sebastien Roy
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 13:13 -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: Sebastien Roy wrote: I was under the impression that an IPS package manifest contained the set of services to be automatically imported and started as part of package installation, or temporarily disabled during package upgrade, etc.