On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Robert Milkowski wrote: > CR> It's not so pretty from the user side either, though I suppose that's more > CR> a matter of taste. There are things about Solaris I prefer over Linux, but > CR> the package / patch duality versus the everything-is-a-package approach of > CR> Debian or Red Hat is not one of them > > I can't agree - the possibility to roll back to previous exactly > previous state is a great advantage for patches in Solaris. We do the > same with our software and it works great.
That's not an inherent feature of patch + pkg duality that's not possible with just pkg, though. See rpm transactional rollbacks for an example of it in a pkg-only world... later, chris _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
