On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 22:28, Philip Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 10:17:45PM +0200, rupert THURNER wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 16:43, Peter Bonivart <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:48 AM, rupert THURNER <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> what would happen if one lives without classutils? >> > >> > Disregarding that you have to force past the dependency requirement it >> > would be the equivalent of not running pre/post scripts. The packages >> > that depend on cswclassutils use it for some combo of e.g. init/SMF >> > support and handling of configuration files, see >> > http://wiki.opencsw.org/cswclassutils-package for all features. >> > >> > What's the problem to install it in the global zone? Even if you don't >> > have root access to it yourself you should be able to make a request >> > for a package install, right? What would you do with a sparse zone if >> > you needed a SUNW package that installed in /usr? >> >> we would need to make a request. as we have 1000 machines, and only a >> few of them run opencsw it would be denied. >> >> i am wondering how it was done in the past? because we never had write >> access and it always seemed to work. also the install description only >> states /opt/csw as mount point. > > "in the past", we didnt use the class script as much. > > I would suggest that you make the request. you dont lose much by making the > request, no? > > Afer that, as Peter B. said, you would have to run whatever is needful, by > hand. > > Which is one reason I have been pushing to have the things called by the > class scripts, in /opt/csw rather than /etc. > This allows for tools to be written to do what is neccessary. > > You are basically in the same circumstances as kind of a > "NFS-shared /opt/csw" model. Perhaps this might motivate you to help > write some of those tools? :-) > The good news is, you would only have to do it once for each cswclassutils > script that we have.
could you point me to an example? rupert. _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers
