I filed this: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=10204
User Images should find dependencies in parent image --chris Shawn Walker wrote: > 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, _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
