Bill Yan wrote:
>>> Has the project team been in contact with the pkg team to ensure that
>>> drivers installed using this tool won't be automatically removed from
>>> their installed locations during pkg image-update?
>>
>> If SVR4 packages are added and their files are orthogonal to IPS
>> packages, then IPS will leave those files alone. DDU will use the pkg
>> command to install IPS packages.
Actually, SVR4 package files will be moved to "lost+found" by IPS image-update
in some cases - this has bitten users with the SVR4 installed NVIDIA driver
on a number of occasions, but I believe that's considered a bug in IPS, not
a part of it's architectural design.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
