Dave Miner wrote:
> 
> That was discussed recently, but I don't recall that anyone came up with 
> a satisfactory answer about how to handle the directory entries that are 
> shared across packages while ensuring atomicity of updates with 
> distributed contents.
> 

If one places the directory entries in each package's content file,
there is no atomic update problem other than handling conflicting 
attributes.  The latter is only important when producing the single
legacy /var/sadm/install/contents view; using date order of individual
contents files would prob. work to produce a contents file that matched
the file system.

- Bart



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Bart Smaalders                  Solaris Kernel Performance
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