[csw-maintainers] Killing the stable release

[Peter Bonivart]

2012/3/15 Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński <maciej at opencsw.org>:
> In the case of stable, there is not much breakage. Maybe the only
> breakage would be when someone has a machine running stable, and they
> want to install a new package that they haven't installed before. That
> wouldn't work after the rename. They'd have to reconfigure
> pkgutil.conf to point at stable-dead, that's all.

Pkgutil will fail without "injury". I see two cases, you have an up to
date catalog, then the actual file fetching will fail and pkgutil
aborts. Otherwise, the catalog fetching will fail and pkgutil aborts.
In both cases no changes are made to your system.

How about pkg-get? How does that work if download don't work? Is it
possible that it removes packages first, tries to download new ones,
fails and you end up without some packages you had? I assume lots of
users of stable are still on pkg-get.