On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote: > Martin Bochnig wrote: >> >> Yesterday Danek Duvall confirmed on pkg-discuss, that the label of the >> authority should not have severe consequences,, atleast not in this >> context: > > Danek just said it wasn't causing your problem; not that you should do it :) > > In the future, you won't be able to use your own label for the publisher, > and the correct way to do this will be to switch between selected > repositories for a publisher. ?I thought it would be a good habit for you to > get used to, and it really is the correct way to do it. > > Where you can have a problem is if you install packages from a non-preferred > publisher, and then remove that publisher from the system. ?That will > prevent those packages from being automatically upgraded possibly in the > future. > > In short, there are subtle behaviours surrounding publisher evaluation and > its best to change the origin (repository) of a publisher instead of > temporarily adding and removing one.
Thanks for the details. With this verbose [why] vs. [why not] I'm happy, and things only make sense to me, if I know why they should. Now they do :) -- Nasdorovje, %martin
