On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 09:44 +1300, Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote: > On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 09:10 -0400, Sebastien Roy wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 13:25 +0100, Christian Kelly wrote: > > > Updated this page http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/jds/ so that it > > > now points to instructions to install from IPS, here > > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/jds/documents/installing_from_ips/ > > > > What are the consequences of uninstalling the "entire" incorporation? > > What happens when an image-update is executed? > > image-update won't install any new packages that are added to > "entire", unless they are dependencies of something that is > already installed on your system.
Okay, so the usage model here isn't to install the vermillion incorporation and to keep upgrading using image-update. Rather, it's to manually create an alternate BE to play with these bits. To upgrade the OS, the user would have to go back to a previous BE (without the development vermillion bits), do an image-update, re-create another alternate BE from the result, and re-install the development vermillion bits. I think stating this up front in your documentation above will save you time in preventing users from complaining when they start noticing that image-update doesn't do what they think it should do... -Seb
