Shawn Walker wrote:
Dave Miner wrote:
Shawn Walker wrote:
Some changes to the license action are needed to implement the
following RFEs:
5586 licenseinfo api needs to expose license action attributes
5732 packagemanager should have support for click-thru license
5943 'must_accept' attribute desired for license actions
This proposal is based on sch's proposal and the resulting
discussions [1].
Something that I didn't think to ask about when this was discussed
initially, but might as well bring up now, is whether there's a
requirement to carry this through to something like the live CD
installer. While we currently confine OpenSolaris the distro to only
redistributable packages without any of the click-through licenses, I
fully expect extrusions to be built for which that will not be true,
but which may want to leverage the installer. It seems we would need
the ability for the installer to detect that the image which it's
intending to copy has license acceptance-required packages. One
possibility is that we just aggregate this information during
construction into the installer metadata that we create for the ISO,
another might be to be able to query pkg whether any of the packages
in the image had such licenses. My first thought is that the
aggregation via DC might be preferable, but I'm not entirely
convinced yet.
It would be fairly easy for consumers of the pkg api or client to get
the list of packages that require license acceptance and if so
desired, the license text.
The new package search backend (as of build 110) would let you get a
list of packages that require an acceptance of license with something
like this (I think):
pkg search -p :license:must_accept:true
In theory that would work. The key would be to make sure that the
license action generate index function gets updated if needed to produce
that output.
Brock
The license text could be retrieved with:
pkg info --license SUNWfoo
A client api function could be added to make this easier for api
consumers, but I'm not certain whether the cli case should have a
special command to deal with this or not.
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