Sort of FYI...

We had to deal with adding a number of special UID's on the E25K service 
processor.
You can freely download the SMS 1.6 software from sun.com/downloads and
take a look at the install class scripts in the SUNWSMSr package to get 
an idea of
how it can be done.

Bruce Hill

a b wrote:

>
> > If you're updating an alternate root through pkgadd, I would not worry
> > about locking at all; there cannot be concurrent tools updating it
> > except if someone is doing package at and at the same time doing
> > maintenance by hand (unlikely with proper locking also)
>
> I do not believe this to be true. A diskless or an AutoClient could be 
> running with users banging on the system while a package is being 
> installed from a central AutoClient / diskless client server.
>  
> This is the one of the big points of the "-R" switch to the `pkgadd` 
> command, and why only packages capable of handling such a scenario can 
> be called truly relocatable.
>  
> Because of such restricted conditions, truly relocatable packages are 
> the hardest kind to build.
>  
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