On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:35:01AM +0530, Sunanda Menon wrote: > Is it appropriate for the users to see symbolic links overwritten with > new package installation .In this case (5.1 packages overwriting MySQL > 5.0 packages) without any user warning .
Yes, that's the behavior I would expect, and both packaging systems will handle that without any issues. > Can I write checkinstall/postinstall scripts to handle this and let user > decide . No. Packages need to be non-interactive. RE won't let you integrate packages that require interactivity. > Will they be supported in IPS . or can I write my own class action > scripts such as i.presevesoftlink to take care of them .Will IPS support > newly created action scripts other than the ones given by solaris. As has been pointed out many, many times on this forum and others, IPS doesn't support scripting. If you have a particular behavior that you want to present to the user, please ask specifically. Danek _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
