[install-discuss] [PROJECT PROPOSAL] pkg - Image Packaging System

[Bill Sommerfeld]

On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 22:28 +0100, Peter Tribble wrote:
> > What disadvantages do you see in treating patching as upgrading?
> 
> Upgrading means testing and requalifying all my applications. 

Even if the change delivered by "upgrading" is exactly the same as the
change delivered by "patching" ?

> At
> least under Solaris, patching never has. Under the current patching
> scheme, it's possible to get a fix for an individual bug; 

in practice, it's only possible to do this via an IDR or point patch,
and those are only rarely generated.  Generally you get several bugfixes
together.

IMHO we're going to need to provide some sort of IDR-like mechanism for
support/sustaining and the design will need to allow for this.

				- Bill