> Dennis Clarke writes: >> Do you feel or even think that we can come up with a way to maintain the >> contents database file as well as perhaps design a better way to roll out >> software packages? > > Yes.
Excellent .. me too. :-) However I can not write up a complete response right away so I want to come back to this in a little while. I have to deal with a few things and then I want to come back to this. OKay ? Dennis > I think it'd be helpful to have a "check pkgmap diffs" mode for > pkgadd, so that can remove stray files after performing an > "instance=overwrite" type of install. One of the benefits is that we > could eliminate one of the possible failure modes: at the end of a > pkgadd, you'd either have the new package installed, or the old one > would remain. It wouldn't be possible to remove the old one and fail > to install the new. <snippage> _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
