[TFNR][REPORT]Where are we?!
Doug Way
dway at riskmetrics.com
Fri Nov 28 00:13:03 UTC 2003
Lex Spoon wrote:
>Doug Way <dway at riskmetrics.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Or more specifically, you could have a utility for the "configurations"
>>you describe, which would convert a single configuration into a SAR
>>containing the specified packages. This would probably not be the
>>typical way people install things, but it would be handy for putting
>>standalone apps on CD's as Stephane describes.
>>
>>Although I guess there is a question of how "deep" you'd go with such a
>>utility... one might assume that the user already has such-and-such
>>version of a Full image, and you'd only include the packages in the SAR
>>which are not already in the Full image.
>>
>>
>
>Somewhere in here, it would be nice for the guy who installs this
>mega-SAR to have some way to verify that all the dependencies are met.
>Suppose the person does not have a pristine image of any particular
>kind, e.g. because they've added a bunch of your other mega-SAR's to
>their image already.
>
>
Yeah, I was just brainstorming there. Probably the configuration file
should also be included in such a SAR, which could verify that
dependencies are met. The image would need to know which versions of
packages had been installed.
- Doug
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