On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 05:01:12PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > It is mainly the catalog unexpectedly changing that is the issue. > > search, in particular, doesn't like things disappearing from the > catalog and doesn't account for it (currently).
Yeah, that's annoying. Though if the repo doesn't get too big, which /pending shouldn't, then it shouldn't take that long to re-generate the search indices. > Removing things from the catalog in the suggested fashion also > eliminates the ability to do incremental updates and wipes out a > repository's updatelog. > > You are correct that for installed packages, no ill-effects are > likely to occur other than a user being stuck with an orphaned > package that will not automatically be updated if it appears under > the aegis of another publisher. I'd be willing to push those annoyances off to the developers using the repo, at least for a while. I really don't see them being a huge deal. For the first, you'll never get an updatelog, always a full catalog (or it shouldn't be hard to make that be the behavior), but again, /pending should be reasonably small. And for the second, it's not hard to make "pkg uninstall" be part of the testing process. If the jucr folks would like to come up with a plan that would take care of these issues, we can discuss that here, but I think the core team has higher priority things on the list for now. If we start to get reports of people saying they won't use jucr because of these issues, then we can certainly revisit the priority. Danek _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
