On 06/14/11 09:51 AM, Danek Duvall wrote: > I think it's overkill -- more dense text that no one who would need to will > actually read. Frankly, I don't think anyone will care too much, and the > answer is simpler than unsetting stickiness -- just explicitly install the > new version from the solaris publisher. > > ... the package has moved from ON to Userland ... *only* if you're > using ON nightly bits prior to 2011/06/XX will you possibly notice, and > if you really care (you probably don't), wait until build 168 is out > and run "pkg install //solaris/system/data/hardware-registry".
Thanks - I didn't realize that explicitly specifying the publisher would override stickiness - I'd only thought to try "[email protected]", which didn't work. It appears that using pkg update lets people apply the fix today, instead of having to wait for the 168 WOS repo to be published. Here's a revised shorter draft: The putback of: 7052095 pkg:/system/data/hardware-registry should be removed from ON constitutes a minor flag day for developers and testers who install packages from on-nightly or similar ON development/project gate repos that were built prior to this change. If you only install full Solaris WOS builds from the solaris publisher, or install ON packages for the first time after this changeset, then there's nothing you need to do. The hardware-registry package will always simply come from the solaris publisher. If you have already updated to packages from an ON-specific publisher that were built prior to this changeset, then future upgrades will leave the existing hardware-registry package from the last on-nightly build you installed with it in, and you will not get future versions in upgrades. This likely won't cause any problems, as this package just provides human readable names for PCI & USB device & vendor ids for commands such as hald, ddu, scanpci & Xorg. You can can switch such systems back to getting this package from the solaris publisher version by running: pkg update //solaris/system/data/hardware-registry -- -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System _______________________________________________ on-ips-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/on-ips-dev
