UNIX admin wrote:
Patches are not allowed to deliver upgrades or otherwise upgrade software on
Solaris.
Patches are explicitly not allowed to deliver new functionality.
Upgrades do that.
Patches are supposed to amend existing packages in a hopefully coherent
fashion. Whether that amendment implements a new feature, fixes a bug
or whatever is a function of the intent of the patch developer, not
any intrinsic attribute of the patch or rule at Sun. Unfortunately,
we don't rev package version numbers when we patch them; our packaging
system is unaware of patches.
We need to make the distinction between patching and upgrading
go away; package versioning needs to be implemented.
- Bart
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Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/barts
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