On 19/12/2012 2:40 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > ... > The other thing that seriously pisses me off is the way IPS was sold to Sun > management. It was a solution to the problems raised by patches. Those > problems did not need a new packaging system to solve them. The solution was > to stop delivering (or even remove support for!) partial packages (the > technical term for "patches" in SVR4 pkg parlance.) I.e. a "technical" > solution was presented to solve what was really a "policy" problem. (The > solution was to simply stop delivering/supporting patches.) IMO, it was a > sleazy sales job, and the folks behind it ought to be ashamed. >
I heard a different sales job and that was it was to make it easier for staff to create specific patches for a customer, for the customer to then download and install them. Think ZFS, snapshot, clone and then merge diffs with each tree being its own repo for a specific customer. Thus a support customer could have their own patch tree maintained at Oracle. I hate to think if that actually eventuated. The failure of IPS on a social level (as a community effort) could be said to be reflective of the success of OpenSolaris in general. Darren ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
