[csw-maintainers] CSWX packages

[James Lee]

On 24/12/10, 00:33:23, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote regarding Re: 
[csw-maintainers] CSWX packages:

> > currently does this) as patches to solaris may overwrite our binaries
> > (at least without special awareness by the admin)...this would go
> > against the "it just works" goal.

> if we 'register' our replacement binaries/symlinks with installf,
> shouldnt sun's patch tools complain and quit, rather than blindly
> replace?

Quitting a patch isn't good.  If you remove CSWXfoo and expect it
to replace the system foo files they will be unpactched and maybe
incompatible.

I think live update will overwrite the changes.



James.