Peter Tribble wrote: > On Nov 15, 2007 6:33 PM, Bart Smaalders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland) wrote: >>> Hi >>> How does IPS rid itself of the various scripts ( postinstall say ) that >>> SVR4 uses to provision your system post pkgadd, ie say add_drv or so on. >>> >> We've just started along this path. We're basically breaking tasks >> performed in post-install scripts into two bunches: those that need >> to happen before boot/during install, and those that can wait after >> restart (whether service or OS). The tasks that are done immediately >> are called actions. Right now we have file, directory, link, hardlink, >> license, and driver actions. The latter action takes care of calling >> add_drv/update_drv as needed, for example. > > Given that IPS will handle existing SVR4 packages (as I understand it), > how are the existing scripts in those packages handled? >
Right now we're ignoring them :-) and dealing w/ issues as they arise. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/barts _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
