* James Dickens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-20 10:19]: > On 7/20/06, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >What happens when the lock is disabled? If I add another package to > >the global zone that depends on things that were added while the lock > >was enabled, does that work? Do I get a flood of things hauled into > >the now-unlocked non-global zone by dependency, or does the pkgadd > >just fail? The system is in a funny state at this point. > > dependency managment has allways been left to the system > administrator, it would be up to them to deal with them now. Perhaps > we could add a command that would add a package installed in the > global into a non-global zone.
I've been worrying about this aspect, too. It seems that we might want to start to break down the states of a package installation. Without thinking too carefully, for a package that could be shared, there's UNINSTALLED, INSTALLED_GLOBAL, INSTALLED_LOCAL_SHARED while for a package that is not installed sparsely, there's UNINSTALLED, INSTALLED_LOCAL_FULL This would mean that there's some hint available to the zone (if a package is in the INSTALLED_GLOBAL state) that a package is potentially available with further action (a local pkgadd, or an externally initiated operation). I am always curious whether there are ancient documents on this from the past work on diskless systems. - Stephen _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
