On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 15:52 +0100, a b wrote: > > Broken postinstall scripts, 6673044. > > What an interesting bug! > So, it's trying to run gconftool-2(1) from /a? gconftool-2(1) happens > to be a binary executable. > > But, if they depend on binary executables, how do these packages > handle being installed onto a diskless or AutoClient, where the root > server might be of another platform? > > For example, what will happen if the root server for a diskless client > is a sparc platform system, and the diskless or AutoClient client is > i86pc? > How does the "postinstall" phase of the packages account for that?
See here how we normally handle this situation: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-arc/attachments/20080204/4d2d19e7/attachment.txt and the discussion here: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-arc/2008-February/006172.html Laca
