Bart, On Mar 29, 2010, at 18:31 , Bart Smaalders wrote:
> On 03/29/10 09:17, Martin Englund wrote: >> I've just built SUNWipkg and friends and want to install it on a bunch of >> Solaris 10 systems (to run a private package repository with internal tools) >> - but since pkg(1) now uses Python 2.6 and it isn't available (pre-packaged) >> for Solaris 10 I just wanted to see if someone had done that before I >> embarked on that adventure... > > Do be careful about doing this if you're laying down files in the middle of > the OS; if you have a full image pkg thinks it's the only > one managing the filesystem, and this can raise havoc as important > svr4-packaged files will be moved into /var. > > If you're working in a separate directory hierarchy, have at it. > I stick all my stuff in /usr/ops, so I should be safe! But how do I get around the chicken and egg problem with distributing Python 2.6 using pkg, when pkg needs Python 2.6? :) cheers, /Martin -- Martin Englund, Security Engineer, Web Engineering, Sun Microsystems Inc. Email: [email protected] Time Zone: GMT+1 PGP: 1024D/AA514677 "The question is not if you are paranoid, it is if you are paranoid enough." _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
