[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Installing packages on the wrong arch (i386 v

2007-02-21 Thread UNIX admin
brbrbrbrOne of the things I'd like to suggest is that we considerbrmeans for applications to appear in the default path morebreasily than requiring users to edit their .*rc files.brbr- Bartbr Let me share how we solve the issue, perhaps it'll be of some (if limited) value. We have

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Installing packages on the wrong arch (i386 v

2007-02-20 Thread Bart Smaalders
UNIX admin wrote: On a personal workstation, you would expect pkgadd stall things in (say) /usr/bin where you can use them directly in your PATH. This will work for Sun and Sun packages, but will actually break for any third party packages, for example when trying to install them in

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Installing packages on the wrong arch (i386 v

2007-02-20 Thread Jason King
On 2/20/07, Bart Smaalders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: UNIX admin wrote: On a personal workstation, you would expect pkgadd stall things in (say) /usr/bin where you can use them directly in your PATH. This will work for Sun and Sun packages, but will actually break for any third

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Installing packages on the wrong arch (i386 v

2007-02-20 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
I think it would be nice if there were a file in which packages could register the paths for their normal user (and administrative user) binaries, along with a description of the package or application. That would allow a script to be created that would offer various paths (traditional, xpg4,