[illumos-Developer] review: nuke staleness from svr4pkg

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 08:03 +0200, Roland Mainz wrote:

> > There were many reasons that patchadd and patchrm had to go.
> 
> What exactly were the other reasons (except this issue and that the
> patch generation scripts were closed) ?

Being closed was part.  Being hideously complex, ridiculously
non-performant, almost impossible to properly generate compliant patches
for, and a major call generator had much much more to do with
elimination of patching.

In fact, this was also (mistakenly IMO) cited as a reason for developing
a new packaging system.

	- Garrett
> 
> > Shell
> > compatibility was probably the least of these.
> 
> Well, I'm happy to do the s/typeset -i/integer/ replacement job if
> anyone wants such scripts back...
> ... and in general we should do a tree-wide sweep and catch all
> instances of "typeset -i" and replace them with "typeset -li" ...
> 
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> 
> Bye,
> Roland
>