Thank you for the verbose refresher. On 3/28/10 12:04 AM, Danek Duvall wrote: > Now, none of that precludes scripting itself, just the point at which it's > run. What we've done is moved that to a time when the system is fully > assembled, and booted. If you're installing a package on a live system, > then it's ready to go after the packaged bits are down. If you're > installing a package onto a system which isn't live (mounted somewhere > else, possibly in pieces, or in some brand new context you couldn't > possibly have imagined a year or two ago), then the script will be run at > the time the system boots. >
Can you elaborate on this? How specifically is this accomplished? It sounds as though your refering to either inserting an rc script or your referring to an SMF method. > Users and groups (and drivers) are handled directly by the packaging > system; the first two are needed simply to create filesystem objects, and > the latter are needed for booting. There may be other things that require > the filesystem to be updated before SMF is up and running, but so far we > haven't gotten many (if any) requests for such things. > In the case of users and groups; is this to say that if the user and group of a file doesn't exist its created? How would one create users with special properties, such as a pre-defined password, RBAC profiles, etc? benr. _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
