[oi-dev] issues with dir action in IPS

2016-04-18 Thread Alexander Pyhalov
Hi, all. Jim raised interesting question, and I have no good answer so far. So I would like to get more opinions and ideas. The issue is that when we deliver dir action with package, on package uninstall, all unpackaged contents will be moved to /var/pkg/lost+found. Now consider it was severa

Re: [oi-dev] issues with dir action in IPS

2016-04-19 Thread Nikola M
On 04/19/16 01:00 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: So, it seems natural to have single service to automate post-installation tasks. In OpenSolaris/OI we had such service for the long time, system/postrun:default. Unfortunately, it had a lot of lu-upgrade-related legacy, and I suppose wasn't usable

Re: [oi-dev] issues with dir action in IPS

2016-04-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 04/19/16 03:15 AM, Nikola M wrote: I would also like to hear more input from someone else regarding no-scripting philosophy in IPS. See the links in the "Background Reading" section on the bottom of https://java.net/projects/ips/pages/Home and the blogs at: https://timsfoster.wordpress.com