On Jul 26, 2011, at 9:23 PM, Victor Hooi wrote: > Hi, > > I'm the person who asked the original question here: > > http://lists.opencsw.org/pipermail/users/2011-July/008950.html > > about using pkg-util and OpenCSW as non-root, due to a very locked-down > environment. Thanks to Peter and Ben for their replies =). > > I've asked again, and we can install packages (or rather, the sysadmins can > for us), but it will have to be to /usr/local (internal rule), and not > /opt/csw. > > Also, I'm not sure whether we could get pkg-util installed, I think it will > be more we give them a directory with packages, and they just run pkgadd on > all of them. > > I just want to check if there are any issues with this approach. > > Firstly, is there any functional difference with using pkg-util and pkg-add? > I have OpenSolaris installed locally in a VM - I was simply going to run > pkg-util to install everything, get the list of packages from there > (suggestions?), then download all of those into a directory to give to the > sysadmins. > > And secondly - will there be issues if they relocate the packages from > /opt/csw to /usr/local (internal rule, unfortunately). Anything we need to do? > > Finally, are there any issues with the order of installation? Normally, > pkg-util would take care of dependency tracking and ordering here, but we're > going with pkgadd. Should I give the sysadmins a particular order to install > in, and if so, how would I go about getting that order via pkg-util on my > local Solaris VM?
just a suggestion ... you may ask your sysadmins if they'd be kind enough to create a symlink for you. having done that, /opt/csw could easily be located at /usr/local/csw, and things may work as designed while still keeping your sysadmins happy.
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