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On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 01:47:21AM +0200, Jens Elkner wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:43:43AM -0700, Danek Duvall wrote:
>
> > As you'll learn, scripting during an install is decidedly a no-no in the
> > new world of IPS.  Any arbitrary code that needs to run in order to
> 
> Ooops! So relocation is impossible for sure than?

Huh?  What does scripting have to do with relocation?

> > the core Solaris bits, but also whatever text and html documentation might
> > come along with the various bits of opensource we ship.
> 
> My wish is:
> XXX$swname  with bits and real man pages incl. texinfo files and help files
>             directly used by the sw of the package
> XXX$swname-docs  with all the other stuff, which usually ends up in
> /usr/doc[/$swname] or /usr/share/[$swname/]doc/ 

It's all in one package.  You'll be able to filter out the ones you don't
want on the system.  Per-package filters can be used if desired, and there
can be an image-level filter as a default.

> BTW: What is the replacement for 'grep xyz /var/sadm/install/contents', 
>      i.e. ability to determine matching dirs,files (if any) and the
>      package, to which they belong?

"pkg search" on a handful of tokens, such as pathname, basename, content
hash, and others will tell you what delivers that token.  The reverse
mapping can be displayed with "pkg contents".

Danek

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