[indiana-discuss] Default Partitions sizes

[Mike Gerdts]

On 10/7/07, Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:
> From what I gather, ips (the likely successor to the current packaging
> tools) doesn't have a "monolithic" package database and is supposed to
> allow multiple processes to install packages at the same time as long
> as they don't clobber each other. However, I could be horribly wrong.

Being able to install multiple packages at the same time is very
different than storing the information about those packages in
different packaging databases.  The idea is that the non-root package
database can move between OpenSolaris installations and do the right
thing.

For example...

Right now if you install SFW packages and they put stuff in /usr/local
you can take /usr/local to another machine and the stuff installed
there will work.  You wouldn't be able to pkgadd, pkgrm, or
patch{add,rm} (assuming patches were issued) on the machine that
didn't have the package database.  However, if /usr/local had its own
package database, you could move that database with /usr/local and
preserve the ability to manage that software.

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Mike Gerdts
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