Hi 2009/12/10 Peter Bonivart <[email protected]>: > I have never understood this "I don't have root in the global > zone"-issue. If you're only root in the sparse zone, why don't you > just ask the global root to install cswclassutils? It's not like > asking them to pollute the global zone with an Oracle installation, > it's just a few shell scripts. > > In what situation could this not get done? I doubt much can be done at > all at a company that can't provide that minor service.
If you're buying a Solaris VM service based on zones then it might not be an option (which is the position for one of my machines). Or, if it is, it might take a long time to get done. Not only that, if you are in this position CSWcswclassutils will install (and fail, with a partially installed error message) but dependent software will still install (using pkg-get or pkgutil) and then not work. At the very least CSWcswclassutils should test the writability of /usr, and bail if it can't. > Sorry for not being more understanding but if we're dropping support > for an excellent feature I'm not going to work at replacing it. I've just done a lot of work, and Maciej has done a lot more, getting one of my packages in GAR. The package now doesn't start/stop on my test rig which means it fails my tests. I was surprised that we're writing in /usr and don't remember the robust debate on this channel which I'm sure would have accompanied the proposal to start doing so. I guess I wasn't paying attention that day. Gary -- [email protected] _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers
