On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 09:22:40AM -0700, Liane Praza wrote: > My first thought on this was to ask the IPS folks whether actions will > (or already do) participate in dry-run mode (install/uninstall -n). I'd > think they should. If they do, it'd just be a matter of factoring the > results so that various presentation layers could consume them.
They don't currently, and I wasn't aware of any specific plans to do so, but we had been talking about making sure that the image plan would be able to install successfully, and without conflict with what was already on the system, which would require similar sorts of plumbing, so extending that to dry run would be pretty easy. > It might be a nice feature, and something to take up with the new > packaging system. It seems best discussed there as I'd quickly ask why > I couldn't install by filename too. e.g. I want mutt; why do I have to > pkg search, then pkg install? We intend to be able to do both, as they're pretty much the same problem. FWIW (to the pkg folks), we may want to reconsider either having a separate manifest action (we'd been shying away from that recently) or reworking how searches are generated -- currently, we'd need a separate manifest action in order to be able to index (and search on) svc: fmris. Danek
