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Operating Systems Linux Rolling Back an Update Post 302637043 by Brandon9000 on Tuesday 8th of May 2012 09:26:55 AM

05-08-2012

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Quote:

Originally Posted by mark54g

Coming from a UNIX engineering perspective:

If your software ever tried to update other packages in this way, I would uninstall it, create an incident, and bring my legal team together to get you sued out of existence.

You handle YOUR software. You manage your own paths, and bring your own stuff to the party. If you update components on another person's system, you risk breaking it, and costing them a tremendous amount of money and pain.

That will translate into YOUR pain. Don't do it.

Manage your software, not theirs.

What you should do, is follow current best practices:

Create an installer that VERIFIES the minimum versions of software as provided by the OS. You can do that with apt, rpm, yum, whatever. When your vetting is done, you then issue message to the console, or via a log, etc that the system has been verified and may continue, and the installer continues, or that they are missing the per-requisites, and list them. By NO means should you go and get them. That is asking for trouble. You are a vendor, not a systems administrator.

The customers buy my software specifically for the purpose of managing their PCs, including installed applications, and installed applications are updated only on their specific orders. This is the exact function for which they buy my product.

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dxlicenses

dxlicenses(8)						      System Manager's Manual						     dxlicenses(8)

NAME

       dxlicenses - Adds, lists, issues, and deletes software product licenses

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/bin/X11/dxlicenses

DESCRIPTION

       When  you buy software, the vendor from which you purchase the software issues an agreement called a license, which gives you authorization
       to use the product.  Most of the information required by the License Manager can be found on the Product Authorization Key (PAK), which	is
       issued by Compaq when you purchase a software license.

       Use  the  License  Manager  application, dxlicenses, to: Add a licensed software product Modify a licensed software product List a licensed
       software product Issue a modified license product Delete a licensed software product

       The License Manager application can be invoked from the CDE Application Manager from the following categories:

       Application Group:	System_Admin
       System Admin Subgroup:	Daily Admin

       In License Manager, online help is available by clicking on any Help button or by using the Help pull-down menu.

FILES

       The License Manager application executable file The License Manager help volume The Directory containing License Manager application  icons
       The License Manager defaults file that sets the default values for the X resources

SEE ALSO

       Commands: lmf(8), lmfsetup(8)

       Software License Management

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