On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:50:25AM -0700, Bart Smaalders wrote: > Jens Elkner wrote: > > > >>Your solution seems to rely on install-info being available at install > >>time, > >>is that correct? > > > >Yepp. > >install-info has wrt. GNU-Software to be treaded the same way as as any > >other basic install utility (e.g. like cpio). So the "OS" which installs, > >i.e. which is running pkgadd needs to have and run install-info, not > >necessarily the OS, which gets installed... > >Also I can't see any additional dependencies of install-info, expect > >those to SUNWcsl* ... > > Solaris can add packages in serveral different contexts. In particular, > it is possible to add packages to an alternative root, to an diskless > client having a different architecture, etc. This implies that the > set of commands that can be run safely is very limited, and running > binaries that are part of the target system being installed will > break diskless support, various jumpstart scenarios, etc.
Of course. And what's the problem? Regards, jel. -- Otto-von-Guericke University http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/ Department of Computer Science Geb. 29 R 027, Universitaetsplatz 2 39106 Magdeburg, Germany Tel: +49 391 67 12768
