On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 05:50:11PM -0800, lianep at eng.sun.com wrote: > My niggling concern is that an upgrade method is just moving all of the > problems of the upgrade file to a new, public location. You've still > got a dumping ground for shell commands which do opaque things to the > system. But, on the other hand, at least they're attached to a > specific service.
We know that services need to do things on upgrade in the context of the running upgraded system, and making that need go away seems very, very difficult, if not impossible. So an upgrade method seems like a reasonable compromise. Nico --
