UNIX admin wrote:
> I'd just like someone to tell me just how I'm supposed to remove my Oracle
> database with an IPS package. And if anyone writes "SMF", then I'd like to
> know just how exactly will I run an SMF method to remove a database, when IPS
> doesn't allow scripting.
By using the IPS action to specify an SMF service to be called.
IPS doesn't deny all scripting, it just doesn't provide support
for arbitrary scripts to be run during all the places previous
packaging systems did. Some of that functionality is replaced
by standard IPS actions - for instance, instead of having 500
copies of the "install a driver" script, one in every package,
IPS just has one that comes with IPS, and provides a single place
to fix bugs. Other functionality is replaced by having hooks
for SMF services to be run - knowing that those will always be
running in the target environment, not on the diskless client's
server, the previous OS version being upgraded from, or any of
the dozen other contexts that led to SVR4 packaging scripts
becoming a nightmare of pkgcond tests and if/elif/elif/elif/else
clauses.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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