Chris Quenelle wrote:
I'm trying to use a user image to install a copy of the sunstudio package in user-specified directory. It seems like the kind of thing user images would be appropriate for, but maybe I'm wrong and that's not the intended use? At any rate, since sunstudio depends on OS packages, they all get sucked into the user image including $IMAGE/kernel and $IMAGE/dev etc. Not what I intended. It seems a little tricky to figure out which dependencies can be satisfied by packages installed in the containing image, and which ones need to be installed locally. I looked for a bug/rfe related to this, but I didn't find one. Should a user image install always assume dependencies can be met by the enclosing image, and caveat emptor? If so, then it seems like a pretty well scoped RFE. Should I file one?
User images aren't fully implemented yet, in the sense that we need the logic to link user images to their parent image so that dependencies (as you've discovered) can be satisfied by their parent image.
Ideally, users would be able to have user images function as you expect. I don't believe we have all of the applicable open RFEs or bugs for this, but we do have comments in the code documenting the need for it :)
The closest applicable bug I found is this one: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=2661 Cheers, -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
