On 01/06/12 13:07, Edward Pilatowicz wrote:
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
"Latest" is based on your publisher search order, etc. So in the case of on-nightly, versions from solaris would not be considered. Basically, think of "Latest" as if you did a "pkg list osnet-incorporation@latest".
- 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.)
onu does have a -v option if users actually want to see their updates, and as Alan pointed out there's a bug open to change it to use '@latest' where appropriate.
- 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.
That was my hope. Thanks, -Shawn _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
