Martin Bochnig wrote:
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Darren J Moffat<[email protected]> wrote:
Martin Bochnig wrote:
What about "-R <alternate root>" ?
What about it ? That support is already there and is used for installing
zones and image-update.
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Darren J Moffat
Hello, I meant, what about just test-installing 1 or more packages
into an empty alternate root. Then you need to be able to override
deps (because obviously the new root doesn't contain anything yet). In
the old days of SVR4 pkgadd this has been possible. Is it possible
now?
To "just test" install of a package you don't need to ignore
dependencies. I think of two reasons why you would want to ignore
dependencies:
1) time to install all the dependencies
2) space need to install all the dependencies
Are there others ?
Neither of those are an issue on OpenSolaris any more. Both are
resolved by using beadm to create a new boot environment from the
current one. ZFS saves you the time and the space since the new be is a
clone of an existing one (and it doesn't have to be the one you are
running).
You can even have the new be be given to a zone and test booting with
your new packages.
Other than the "broken dependencies" issue why else would you want to
skip dependencies ?
Note I'm not arguing this one way I'm just trying to get all the facts
out into the discussion and make sure everyone arguing one side or the
other sees them all.
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Darren J Moffat
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