[bug-notifications] [alternatives 0004538]: Symbolic links not created in new sparse-root zone

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Tue May 24 23:44:24 CEST 2011


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https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4538 
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Reported By:                gadavis
Assigned To:                phil
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Project:                    alternatives
Issue ID:                   4538
Category:                   regular use
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     feedback
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Date Submitted:             2010-08-31 22:19 CEST
Last Modified:              2011-05-24 23:44 CEST
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Summary:                    Symbolic links not created in new sparse-root zone
Description: 
There appears to be a bug in the alternatives mechanism when creating a new
sparse-root zone on Solaris 10 systems.

I have a global zone with CSW alternatives, CSWneon, CSWsudo, and
CSWsudo-common installed. The alternatives mechanism has registered the
symlinks in the right locations and alternatives --display neon and
alternatives --display sudo work as expected.

If I then create a new non-global zone with the default inherited paths
(your typical sparse-root zone), alternatives --display whatever shows the
correct paths listed, but the symlinks are not there.

After zone creation, I have to manually force the alternatives mechanism
to install the needed symlinks by running a shell loop:

for d in `ls /opt/csw/share/alternatives`; do 
	alt=`basename $d`; 
	alternatives --auto $alt; 
done

Note that if I uninstall CSWsudo inside the zone and then re-install it,
the alternatives mechanism works as expected. It's only upon initial zone
creation that the alternatives symlinks do not get created.
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 (0009069) phil (manager) - 2011-05-24 23:44
 https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4538#c9069 
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Ah, I didnt notice that gadavis did answer with a suggestion on which
package for installf.

The one problem with that, is that when the "alternatives" package gets
upgraded, the symlinks would get removed, and thus "lose" preferences, I
think.
To preserve preferences, you have to have something of persistance,
outside of what is registered in the package database. 
Currently, the symlinks themselves serve as that, but only if they are not
registered.

I'll try to get around to implemeting the "relink-all" option soon though.



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