[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It seems like there are better ways of determining this information, > instead of looking through all of the manifests, and examining the size > attributes. > > The pkg client doesn't know how large an install will be until it has > evaluated an imageplan. Once the evaluation has completed, we actually > have the number of packages and bytes available. It seems like it would > make more sense to plug at the end of imageplan.evaluate, than it would > to do really slow and painful things. You could always prompt the user > to abort between the evaluate and the download phases.
This is the only place you can know whether a reboot is needed, or if critical services need to be restarted, etc. The path taken for upgrade depends on the starting point, largely _UNLIKE_ today's system (modulo minimization). - Bart Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird." _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
