dick hoogendijk wrote:
In run OpenSolaris 2009.06 and there are two upgrades in the release
repo. SunStudio and (as I see just now) also one for virtualbox.
I think it is not right to create a NEW BE just for these updates.
That is overkill imho.
Can somebody explain why it's chosen to be handled like this?
Mind you: new BEs are a good thing, but just for a few upgrades of some
packages?
As others pointed out, packages with kernel upgrades are a good reason
to use an alternate boot enivronment.
However, the main reason at the moment is because you use image-update
(or "Update All" in the GUI tools).
At the moment, image-update doesn't know enough about the packages being
upgraded to determine whether a new boot environment is needed or not.
In the near future, we hope to have more metadata in packages that will
enable the packaging system to make smart decisions about whether a boot
environment is needed.
Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
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