> On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 09:52:48AM +0200, > Casper.Dik at sun.com wrote: > > > Or properly define and limit "scripting". > > Well, the system does (or can do) more than *just* > lay down bits. Its just > that a package isn't given an opportunity to deliver > its own arbitrary > code to do that. When it delivers an object, that > object may be more > specific than "file" or "directory". It may be > "user" or "service" or > "driver". The code that's part of the packaging > system will then do extra > things with it, like run useradd, svcmumble, or > update_drv, based on the > properties of the delivered object.
A note on useradd: it'll need to be able to deal with a user being in a remote repository (say LDAP) but the installer wanting a local user so that network/LDAP/.... hiccups don't effect service. One possible feature would be to look up the details from the centralized store and then add the user to the password file with those details. Paul This message posted from opensolaris.org
