On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 04:57:40PM -0700, Danek Duvall wrote:
> [ again, redirected to pkg-discuss, bcc'ed to install-discuss ]
> 
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 01:47:21AM +0200, Jens Elkner wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:43:43AM -0700, Danek Duvall wrote:
> >
> > > As you'll learn, scripting during an install is decidedly a no-no in the
> > > new world of IPS.  Any arbitrary code that needs to run in order to
> > 
> > Ooops! So relocation is impossible for sure than?
> 
> Huh?  What does scripting have to do with relocation?

Sorry for confusion: action scripting like 'rename' class is meant,
where one is able to adjust pathes e.g. in configure/shell/etc scripts
on the fly, depending on the installed packages ...

> > > the core Solaris bits, but also whatever text and html documentation might
> > > come along with the various bits of opensource we ship.
> > 
> > My wish is:
> > XXX$swname  with bits and real man pages incl. texinfo files and help files
> >             directly used by the sw of the package
> > XXX$swname-docs  with all the other stuff, which usually ends up in
> > /usr/doc[/$swname] or /usr/share/[$swname/]doc/ 
> 
> It's all in one package.  You'll be able to filter out the ones you don't
> want on the system.  Per-package filters can be used if desired, and there
> can be an image-level filter as a default.
 
Sounds like much more work aka package "introspection" needs to be done
for those systems - :(((

> > BTW: What is the replacement for 'grep xyz /var/sadm/install/contents', 
> >      i.e. ability to determine matching dirs,files (if any) and the
> >      package, to which they belong?
> 
> "pkg search" on a handful of tokens, such as pathname, basename, content
> hash, and others will tell you what delivers that token.  The reverse
> mapping can be displayed with "pkg contents".

Installed a copy on my mac (since on vacation ;-)). Looks not very
userfriendly at all and is awefully slow. But don't mind, there are
too much "don't likes" for me, so we'll keep using nevada and Solaris ...

Regards,
jel.
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