karaf pull request: New feature deployer

[jjongsma <gi...@git.apache.org>]

GitHub user jjongsma opened a pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/karaf/pull/27

    New feature deployer

    Looking for some feedback on this one.
    
    We do a lot of hot upgrades to our servers by just updating the local feature XML files, and have noticed some issues in the current version, most importantly:
    
    1. Ref counting is broken, so features/bundles are frequently not uninstalled even when they are no longer required as a dependency of install=auto features
    2. Removing or replacing a repository (feature XML file) does not remove bundles contained in it even if they were no longer referenced as a dependency anywhere, leaving a lot of running orphaned components
    
    This feature deployer rewrite is our attempt to resolve these issues. It does change the behavior, but only to fix what currently seems broken.

You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running:

    $ git pull https://github.com/barchart/karaf deployer

Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:

    https://github.com/apache/karaf/pull/27.patch

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commit 784ebd9f4860afdad42d2e6f494d9105f456b79b
Author: jjongsma <je...@barchart.com>
Date:   2014-02-06T19:56:11Z

    New feature deployer

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