One other thing I wish pkg-get and pkgutil did is simply to prompt me for a confirmation to install the pkg and all its deps, like yum does, before actualy starting. RFE.
Thanks. 2011/4/7 Maciej Bliziński <[email protected]>: > 2011/4/7 Peter Bonivart <[email protected]>: >> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 4:22 AM, Mohamed Lrhazi <[email protected]> wrote: >>> My /opt/csw was a symlink to soem other place (an nfs mount point)... >>> After runinng pkg-get -i pkgutil && pkgrm CSWpkgget >>> >>> It seems I have a brand new, mostly empty, /opt/csw, which is a real >>> dir, not a symlink... >>> >>> Is that expected? maybe I should be reading those prompts that ask if >>> I want stuff done :) >> >> Sorry about that. Pkgadd is a little brutal in these edge cases > > Is there a way to make things better in such a case? For example, > such symlink could be detected in a preinstall script, and a > informative message could be displayed, along the lines of: > > """/opt/csw is a symlink to <place>. pkgadd will remove the symlink > and replace it with a directory. There is no easy workaround for > that. Files from /opt/csw will have to be moved to <place> and the > symlink will have to be re-created by the system administrator (you). > > Continuing in 5... 4... 3... > """ > > The same test could be done for /opt. > > Maciej > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/users
