David.Comay at Sun.COM wrote:

>>>Indeed and it's not clear to me this is actually necessary.  Just
>>>deliver the link through the prototype file and upgrade will
>>>automatically move you forward to the latest version.
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Not exactly, right? I mean, which ever package is installed last will be the 
>>default. I mean, if you install (assumeing) SUNWruby19u first and next 
>>SUNWruby18u, then, /usr/bin/ruby would point to version 1.8.
>>Only with the logic in postinstall would you be able to ensure that the 
>>/usr/bin/ruby would point to the higest version of ruby.
>>    
>>
>
>Sorry, I wasn't particular clear.  I believe the right way of doing
>this is to deliver a link which points to the highest version of Ruby
>that's delivered in the WOS (or in the future, the OpenSolaris package
>repository).  If someone wants to access a particular version of Ruby,
>they'll need to access the specific version such as
>/usr/ruby/1.9/bin/ruby.  So at any one time, only one package delivers
>that link.
>
>This is similar to the way Perl delivers /usr/bin/perl.
>  
>

I wanted to implement something similar for MySQL (ie latest version 
points to /usr/mysql directory)...I plan on implementing using 
postinstall script ...if the consensus is that updating links in 
prototype_com is a better approach, can anyone point me to a reference 
implementation for the same

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