[csw-users] blastwave package question

Oscar del Rio delrio at mie.utoronto.ca
Tue Aug 22 17:12:53 CEST 2006


Larry W. Virden wrote:
> The system admins are concerned that use of the blastwave pkg_add will create
> a situation where, when they apply Sun patches or upgrades, blastwave info
> may be overwritten and someone would then need to reinstall the packages.

There might be some such conflicts if a blastwave packages replaces Sun files.

For example, CSWsendmail might replace /usr/lib/sendmail and Sun patches
might restore it later on.  You don't have to reinstall the package but
might have to re-do the changes.




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