| author | Shawn Walker <shawn.walker@oracle.com> |
| Sat, 16 Jul 2011 08:45:13 -0700 | |
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CLIENT DEDUCTION AND SELF-REPAIR |
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In the case of a partially installed system, a system installed by a |
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previous packaging regime, or a system that has been somehow damaged, |
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it is possible for the pkg system to identify the current system's |
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state via a deductive process. |
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That is, the client can examine an image's contents and determine, by |
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interrogation, the precise version of each package installed in the |
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image. If a specific file is missing, then the client can move the |
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package from (INSTALLED, .) to (INSTALLED, damaged) and record the |
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operation it would take to restore the package's state (via restoring |
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the contents). |
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XXX Most efficient algorithm for the minimum set of queries to |
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identify the specific version of a package an image contains? |
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