Norm Jacobs wrote: > Daria Mehra wrote: >> Is it necessary to have a separate root package just to include a single >> sample config file? Is there perhaps another location where I could put >> such a file, without proliferating packages? >> > There is no common package for this, so yes you will have to deliver a > root package for this. FWIW, the packages will end up combined under IPS.
The alternative would be putting the sample file under /usr somewhere as a sample and telling users to copy it to /etc as part of setup/configuration. (That also saves you from having to figure out what to do on upgrades when the user has edited the file and you have an updated sample to deliver.) >> I would also appreciate a pointer to documentation about root and user >> packages if it exists. >> > There is a fairly long document that describes various packaging rules > somewhere on SAC (I think, though I don't recall where). There's several long documents on Solaris packaging internally at http://solaris.eng/benet/Packaging/ - if we weren't moving to IPS we'd need to find an opensolaris.org home for these, but I'm not sure how much longer they'll apply given the IPS move. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
