On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 01:02 +0100, Michal Pryc wrote: > > I don't like the way it strips the SUNW prefix off the package > > names. This makes it very hard to see what's actually > > going on. > This was Idea that Alberto Ruiz bring up. For "normal" users SUNW > doesn't mean too much, and having a lot of packages that begins with > SUNW make GUI less redible. I left CBE* and CSW* packages. The idea was > to remove prefix and add in the Information tab icon or info telling > what type of package it is.
Hmm... the SUNW is part of the package name, it's also what the pkg commands expect, so I agree with Peter that it should not be stripped. > > Checking gid=0 from the output of id isn't necessarily > > accurate as a check of whether the user can install > > packages. > Prototype :-) Normally I should check for each packaging system, > different thing (like "Software Installation" user attribute for CBE) It's not specific to the packaging system. Users with the Software Installation profile can run pkgadd/pkgrm via pfexec, no root access needed. Laca _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
