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. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Earth is coming. Learn more about the hottest summer event - > only on MSN. Check it out! > <http://liveearth.msn.com?source=msntaglineliveearthwlm> > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >install-discuss mailing list >install-discuss at opensolaris.org >http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss > >
