On 03/ 4/10 09:54 AM, Casper.Dik at sun.com wrote: > >> 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. > > > Or any other files installed not by IPS.
That's debatable; but not this case. Regardless, yes, integration between SVR4 and pkg(5) will be tighter in the future. > IPS also fails when you remove a file and IPS then tries to remove the > package, at least during update-image. IPS should behave more like SVR4: As for the removing a file bit, that's a bug I already have a fix for locally (along with several related ones) to handle unexpected changes in image state. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker
