[install-discuss] Conditional installation

2009-07-13 Thread Aditya Vishwanath
Well short of doing that I was wondering if there is a way to build intelligence into the packaging script that would conditionally install the man pages into /opt only for sparse root zones. Any ideas on how to go about this On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Dave Miner wrote: > Aditya wrote: >

[install-discuss] Conditional installation

2009-07-13 Thread James Carlson
Aditya Vishwanath wrote: > Well short of doing that I was wondering if there is a way to build > intelligence into the packaging script that would conditionally install > the man pages into /opt only for sparse root zones. Any ideas on how to > go about this Creating two separate packages would b

[install-discuss] Conditional installation

2009-07-13 Thread Dave Miner
Aditya wrote: > Firstly thanks James fo your reply ! . To answer the question well if > the application is installed in a sparse root zone then /usr > filesystems are read-only and hence I will not be able to write to the > /usr/man /... directory .By default on ordinary solaris hosts my app > writ

[install-discuss] Conditional installation

2009-07-12 Thread Aditya
Firstly thanks James fo your reply ! . To answer the question well if the application is installed in a sparse root zone then /usr filesystems are read-only and hence I will not be able to write to the /usr/man /... directory .By default on ordinary solaris hosts my app writes into that directory .

[install-discuss] Conditional installation

2009-07-12 Thread James Carlson
Aditya wrote: > I need to install a set of files in a particular location depending on a > condition. More specifically if in a ordinary solaris host then I will > install it directoy "A" else if its in a solaris zone then I will install in > directory "B". Kindly tell me how do i achieve this

[install-discuss] Conditional installation

2009-07-11 Thread Aditya
I need to install a set of files in a particular location depending on a condition. More specifically if in a ordinary solaris host then I will install it directoy "A" else if its in a solaris zone then I will install in directory "B". Kindly tell me how do i achieve this -- This message poste