Well short of doing that I was wondering if there is a way to build intelligence into the packaging script that would conditionally install the man pages into /opt only for sparse root zones. Any ideas on how to go about this
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Dave Miner <dminer at opensolaris.org> wrote: > Aditya wrote: > >> Firstly thanks James fo your reply ! . To answer the question well if >> the application is installed in a sparse root zone then /usr >> filesystems are read-only and hence I will not be able to write to the >> /usr/man /... directory .By default on ordinary solaris hosts my app >> writes into that directory .So as a way out I thought of writing the >> man pages to the file-system writable to the sparse-root zone and >> hence the necessary intelligence into the packaging script. Appreciate >> your thoughts. Thanks in Advance. >> > > > The answer would be: don't do that. Install into /opt/.../man for all > cases. > > Dave > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/attachments/20090713/f0197c69/attachment.html>
