Philip Brown wrote: > Thanks for the reply, C.K., > > Obviously, for someone who is explicitly looking for "a cross-platform > solution", then SVR4+ anything, probably isnt a good fit :-) > > For some of the other things you wrote about, though:... > > > > Christopher Kampmeier wrote: >>> Are you actually telling me that IPS "solves" this? If so, i would be >>> interested to see a reference on this. >> Sure, user images fill the bill quite nicely: >> >> pkg image-create -U -a sun.com=http://updates.sfbay.sun.com:10000 c:\sdk > > > Interesting to know. Thanks. > As a comparison, it seems about equivalent ugliness to > "pkgadd -R /sdk ..." > > Or if you want multi-package, network-updatable support > > PKGADDFLAGS="-R /sdk" pkg-get install .... > > > As mentioned previously, if the arbitrary "quit if not root" limit was > removed from pkgadd, it would address those "user area packages" needs > fairly easily.
You may want to read through this thread from last year: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=50222 I actually implemented this in the pkg* tools, and it worked fine on the surface, but there are a lot of things after the "uid == 0" check that come into play when implementing userland packaging tools. -jhf- _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
