[csw-maintainers] Solaris 8 packages in named releases

[Ben Walton]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Peter Bonivart <bonivart at opencsw.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński
> <maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> 12/12/29 Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org>:
>>> A very simple addition to pkgutil will make moving to a new release
>>> more obvious:
>>>
>>> 1. Look for $catalog_url/UPGRADE_AVAILABLE (name is for discussion
>>> purposes, not a real proposal).
>>> 2. If found, display with pause before doing new package actions.
>>>
>>> So, when we're ready to have people move from Dublin to the next
>>> release, we place this file and pkgutil will now tell people that
>>
>> I like the idea. It would make the catalogs a linked list. It could be
>> also a field in the catalog file, similar to the one with the creation
>> date.
>
> Dago suggested a long time ago support for a message-of-the-day
> feature if files like ANNOUNCE/MOTD/CHANGES were present. We also have
> talked about the RELEASE feature inside the catalogs, I think that was
> in Kiel. The last one is already implemented in pkgutil but I don't
> see that we publish the RELEASE line in our catalogs.
>
> I just wanted to bring those older ideas up again.
>

Yes, I guess the proposal I made is similar.  If we settle on a
preference, I'm still willing to implement.

Thanks
-Ben