On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 02:34:57PM -0800, Philip Brown wrote: > Nicolas Williams wrote: > > I've not looked carefully at what all the post* scripts do, but a sample > > seems to indicate many are there just to deal with driver registration. > >... > > This is not surprising. most of the *complex* postinstall/preinstall scripts > are for heavy applications/demon/server processes, which sun has > historically not shipped or deal with well in that fashion. > > Meanwhile, the rest of the world tends to to like that sort of thing being > taken care of by the package installation process where possible. > > In other words, just because ON/Nevada/Opensolaris doesnt appear to need a > feature in IPS, doesnt mean that feature is pointless.
I'm not sure what the point is that you're making. IPS supports scripting, just not in the context of package installation. And I've proved that you can re-use much SVR4 package scripting, much of it automatically. Nico -- _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
