a b writes: > >What documentation is that? It's clearly buggy. > > And I quote: > > "A patch must not change the intended delivered behavior of the package?it > is not a mechanism for installing new features. A patch is used to repair > objects installed on the system."
That is (as explained before) a bug in the documentation. > Either way, I'd really appreciate if you could clarify this, and I'm quite > confident that the community at large would benefit from the clarification > of the above as well. Then here's the clarification: Patches delivered by Sun may at times contain new features. This is simply an unavoidable consequence of (a) the way patches are generated and (b) the way releases are managed and marketed. It has been this way for many years. All patches from Sun include precise information about contents. I seriously doubt that this helps anyone in the community, though. There are *NO* OpenSolaris patches. There are *NO* patches for a release under development. Sun's patch generation policy -- and decisions about which things get backported to previous releases (and thus issued as patches) -- has *nothing* to do with the content choices made by any other distribution. In short, patching's just out of scope here. A better place to discuss this would be install-discuss. That's where the patching and packaging tools (and policies regarding them) now live. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
