More ideas/suggestions ... Regards, Moinak.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kevin Monceaux <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 7:20 PM Subject: [pkg-discuss] A few IPS Thoughts/Comments To: pkg Discuss Mailing List <pkg-Discuss at opensolaris.org> IPS Fans, While I'm getting used to working with IPS's current quirks, I'm very much looking forward to it's future. I'm especially excited to have seen several recent posts on speed improvements. On my box it seems fairly common after I've issued a pfexec pkg install -v SomePackage for it to just hang there for several minutes before it gets to the Creating Plan phase. On that note, should IPS check permissions right off the bat for operations that require root privileges? Several times I've had it chew on a pkg install operation for several minutes, get past creating the plan, then fail with a permission denied because I forgot to use pfexec. I have an idea which I hope might be an option for pkg refresh. Of the many Linux distros I've tried, Debian was my favorite. And I really liked the command line version of aptitude, especially one feature which I think was a recent addition. After an aptitude update aptitude would display some summary information showing how many updates were available for installed packages, and how many new packages had been added since the last update. It would keep a list of new packages, which could be displayed with: aptitude search \~N On each update, new packages would keep getting added to the list of known new packages. After reviewing the new packages with the above command, if one wanted to, the new package list could be cleared out with: aptitude forget-new Also, when searching for packages via aptitude search, the list of matching packages it displayed had a column on the left hand side where status indicators were displayed showing weather it was a virtual or actual package, weather or not the package was already installed, etc. All of the above made keeping track of available updates and new packages very simple. I'd love to see similar functionality in IPS some day. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list pkg-discuss at opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
