Bart Smaalders wrote: > 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. >
I think there are more implications to conflicting entries than that - it's a pkgchk issue, at least. We can't just wave it away as "only an issue for conflicts" because we know conflicts happen rather often. Dave
