Hello Danek, Thanks much for your reply. Could you please elaborate / suggest some pointers which i can refer for the first approach you are suggesting ?
Regards, -Dnyaenshwar On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Danek Duvall <[email protected]>wrote: > dnyaneshwar pawar wrote: > > > I am facing an issue after i converted my svr4 type of package to p5p. > > A "request" ( install script ) is used in my software. This script asks > > the user for certain information, e.g. license key. > > Now as i converted this SVR4 package to p5p format, i have just skipped > > "request" script, and the tasks performed by other install scripts > > (preinstall, postinstall etc) are now done through SMF services. > > Can somebody guide about how to handle this so that my software ( in p5p > > format) will ask and take certain information from user. > > It was always a bad idea to mix (interactive) configuration and install, > and our recommendation even in the SVr4 days was to separate the two. > Interactive install prevents you from installing unattended, which is > pretty much necessary when you have a slow terminal (serial console) or > multiple machines to install simultaneously. > > The alternatives are either to write a simple installer that collects the > configuration information prior to executing the install (much like the > Solaris installers) or to write and deliver something simple that allows > the user to perform configuration after the install is complete. > > Danek > _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
