On Sat 13 Dec 2008 at 01:45PM, Tom Mueller wrote:
> Shawn Walker wrote:
> >
> > One concern I have is what happens if pkg(1) enables/disables an
> > authority while the packagemanager is running.
> >
> > What happens then?
> The same thing that happens if you run "pkg unset-authority" while
> packagemanager is running. The packages are removed from the catalog
> cache on disk. However, since packagemanager already has that
> information cached, it will still be able to install packages, etc. from
> the authority that was disabled.
>
> If an authority is enabled while packagemanager is running, it's the
> same as if you run "pkg set-authority" to create a new one while it is
> running. Packagemanager won't know about it and you won't be able to
> install any packages from that authority until you restart packagemanager.
I think we need, to fix all of these sorts of issues, a generation
number on various bits of the pkg metadata. This will allow
long-running processes like pkg manager (actually it will let the API
do the work) to detect when the on-disk stuff has changed, and its
world needs updating.
That may be out of scope here, but we should do it.
-dp
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