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 >_______________________________________________ >webstack-discuss mailing list >webstack-discuss at opensolaris.org >http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/webstack-discuss > >
