[illumos-Developer] review: nuke staleness from svr4pkg

[Joerg Schilling]

"Garrett D'Amore" <garrett at nexenta.com> wrote:

> As part of the first round of changes where I'm giving some luvin' to
> the SVR4 packaging command suite.  The first step is to trim a bunch of
> legacy that is not needed (stuff that should have been done *years
> ago*).
>
> The webrev is here:
>
> http://mexico.purplecow.org/gdamore/webrev/presvr4/

I strongly object _any_ change in these tools before we did discuss what we 
like to achieve and before we have an agreement 


> e) support for the special older WOS packages that used internal
> knowledge to generate a class action script to do compressed file
> delivery.  There has never been a public tool to generate such packages,
> and since at least Solaris 9 the packages in the WOS haven't needed it
> because they ship with a more modern class action script (e.g. one that
> can do bzip or 7zip.)

If you are talking about packages that miss a tree in "root" or "reloc" and 
that instead have "archive/none.*" and "i.none", this is what SchilliX will use 
in the future as this is the only way to use pkgadd -d http://dmomain/filename
with having compression on the payload data and still allow pkgadd to look into 
the package.

Please do not start your private fork...

Jörg

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