[OmniOS-discuss] On pkg(1) behavior in r151022

Dan McDonald danmcd at omniti.com
Wed Feb 22 17:12:18 UTC 2017


> On Feb 22, 2017, at 11:35 AM, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure I would make -r the default. Apart from the existence of
> cases where you explicitly *don't* want to update zones, it makes you
> incompatible wit the rest of the IPS world.
> 
> However, the fact that a bare 'pkg update' could lead to broken linked
> zones does concern me, and I suspect that you're going to have to look
> at whether you need to tighten up package and incorporate dependencies.

What needs to happen is that some core illumos-omnios packages need to always update regardless of "-r".  Rich Lowe gave me a suggested set of diffs:

	https://gist.github.com/richlowe/c88e6defa0eba09e1a00

I may need to include those going forward.

.  .  .

It seems, however, the general consensus is "Yeah, let's not make -r implicit, and document the new behavior."

I'm okay with this, especially given how it behaves with "pkg update -r <specific-package>".


Thank you everyone!
Dan



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