On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Sriram Natarajan <Sriram.Natarajan at sun.com> wrote: > Hi > Going forward, I would like to propose changing the default location > of our PHP5 modules or extensions from /usr/php5/modules to > /var/php5/modules. I was wondering if I can hear your feed back on this > change before I include this issue in the next ARC case. Also, if there > is a way to be more zone friendly without making this change, I would be > very happy to look into that option as well. > > For folks within Sun, here is the bug : 6669573 to track this issue. > http://monaco.sfbay.sun.com/detail.jsf?cr=6669573 > > For folks outside Sun, here is a description from the bug report > > our current integration delivers php modules under /usr . however, once we > add pecl support, pecl allows customers to dynamically download and install > them modules under the modules directory. in our case, the modules directory > is /usr/php5/modules. > > however, in zones environment, /usr can be readonly. Hence, this severely > limits customers from using pecl to download and install new third party > extensions. However, if we changed the default location of our php modules to > be under /var, then we could be more user friendly. Please note that this > change in location should be transparent to most of the customers. > > > Any comments ?
Do we have to have just the one location? The problem I see is that under the new scheme, if you want the same module in a dozen zones then you need to install it a dozen times, and maintain it a dozen times, which isn't good. Is it possible to have modules searched for in both and allow the global zone admin to specify that modules are installed under /usr? -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
