Given the absence, as far as I am aware, of IPS scripts to execute
similar functions to the pkgadd request and preinstall scripts, does
anyone have any hints on how to migrate an SVR4 package that does the
following at preinstall time?
- prompt for desired installation directory
- check for a couple of prerequisite user accounts: abort install if
they are not found
- check for an existing installation of the same package:
-- abort install if existing version is newer, else:
-- call the existing package's "stop" operation to stop its running
services
-- backup some files in the existing package, to prevent them being
overwritten by the new package
There are a few more, but that should be enough to show what I'm trying
to achieve. I don't have a problem with migrating SVR4 *postinstall*
scripts, since I can put that stuff in a script to be run manually after
installation. However, I just don't understand how the sort of
*preinstall* things I listed above can be done in IPS. Surely some IPS
packages must do something similar? How do they do it?
--
Bill
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