hey shawn,
this looks pretty cool. i have the following questions/comments (mostly
related to folks using onu).
- if i have solaris/a@1 installed and i onu to on-nightly/a@2, but the
solaris repo contains solaris/a@3, then presumably i won't see a
"Latest" entry. ie, hopefully i'll see:
on-nightly
entire
Installed @1
Proposed @2
and not:
on-nightly
entire
Installed @1
Proposed @2
Latest @3
- while i think that this is an improvement over what we have today, i
don't think this will help onu users avoid the mistake of running onu,
rebooting, and discovering later that they haven't actually installed
their new bits. generally, i assume that onu ignore onu output and
only look to see if it return an error or not (and if it didn't they
assume their machine was updated). hence, onu should really be
updated to use the @latest nomenclature. (i realize that's not this
proposal and this proposal has good value regardless of onu, i'm just
stating this to make it clear that it's not the problem we're
addressing.)
- wrt updates which only modify non-incorporated packages (mentioned in
your follow up mail) i think that not displaying this summary
information in those cases is fine. the install-holds really give us
a good way to limit the amount of information displayed, and i can't
think of a good mechanisms which would provide that same limit for
updates with don't change any install-hold packages.
ed
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 05:46:59PM -0800, Shawn Walker wrote:
> This is a proposal (primarily) to change the output of pkg(1) when
> -v is not used for package operations. When -v is not used, an
> 'update summary' would be displayed instead at the install-hold
> level. It also attempts to improve messaging in the 'No updates
> available' case.
>
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