[ On Friday, February 8, 2002 at 11:17:31 (+0000), Sean Witham wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Handling 3rd party rc scripts
>
> But you would want the package activation on individual hosts to be 
> tracked by the shared pkg resource, so it could warn about dependent 
> hosts if you tried to de-install and package from the shared resource 
> before all the activated hosts that share resource from it had been 
> de-activated.

This is a very good point.  I thought about it briefly, but left it as
one of those things to be dealt with when/iff this road was travelled.  :-)

> I think in most cases activating a package on a host 
> would need to involve localised installation of the whole package to 
> avoid these complex sharing conflicts.

That brings you right back to the beginning again:  don't try to share
your installed packages (eg. /usr/pkg)!  ;-)

Indeed that's what I do today -- I build and test binary packages and
then separately install copies of them on each production machine.

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