Fundamental question: if I'm an application developer, when would I ever 
use image-create?  thx,  --emk

Bart Smaalders wrote:
> Ed McKnight wrote:
>> RTFM's welcome if pointers given.
>>
>> I'm porting my application to IPS packaging. In the old way of 
>> thinking my BASEDIR is / or /usr and my packages, while relocatable 
>> under pkgadd, really do expect to be under / or /usr.
>>
>> When I install OpenSolaris I have a full image at '/' linked to 
>> pkg.opensolaris.org as the repository. My packages will eventually 
>> reside in that repository, but need not, according to the packaging 
>> docs. Obviously my development time testing packages won't be sent to 
>> that repo.
>>
>> What are the recommended practices for installing packages that are 
>> not in the original full image, but need to go under '/'?
>>
>
> Just create the packages w/ the paths you want... add the repo w/ your
> packages as an additional authority.
>
> As a package creator, please keep your files separate from those in
> the pkgs on p.o.o.
>
>> How about for doing development work and installing from my 
>> development packages? Presumably only the Release Engineer should 
>> send packages to pkg.opensolaris.org.
>
> same approach.
>
> - Bart
>
>
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