isaexec and Tcl/Tk

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Oliver,

Am 18.02.2014 um 18:34 schrieb Oliver Kiddle <opk at opencsw.org>:

> Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
>> 
>> If you want you can try one of these:
>>  http://mirror.opencsw.org/opencsw/allpkgs/alternatives-1.3.30c%2cREV%3d2010.02.18-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz
>>  http://mirror.opencsw.org/opencsw/allpkgs/alternatives-1.3.30c%2cREV%3d2010.02.18-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz
>> 
>> They should work correctly on the provided packages even when in one file.
> 
> I can't get them to do anything. Perhaps they need some database or
> something setup but if all I do is install them, nothing happens when I
> try to configure alternatives. The contents of /var/lib/alternatives on
> my Redhat based system don't seem quite similar enough to what we have
> in /opt/csw/share/alternatives.

Yes, you need to reinstall the packages using alternatives, like the
Tcl-package.

> Note that the alternatives/trunk/files/README file in subversion says:
>    Phil decided that a from-scratch, CSW-custom implementation was
>    needed, because the debian one was hugely bloated, and the redhat
>    smaller one, did not play nicely with NFS-shared /opt/csw So please
>    dont go getting ideas that we can migrated back to redhat,etc in the
>    future! :) we tried, and it failed.

Well, IMHO it just didn’t cope with NFS-sharing /opt/csw which I would consider
an ugly super-legacy method now that we have system automation. So that would be
not a big deal for me.

> Having GAR create multiple alternatives files would seem easiest to me.
> If you prefer, I can modify the existing script to copy relevant entries
> to /etc/opt/csw/alternatives instead of a symlink. I think it can cope
> with things like package removals and upgrades with a little extra
> checking. If you get the RedHat system working, I'm not opposed to it
> either: I just suspect it is more work that way.

The only thing we would need is a converter from the datastore of the existing
symlink-data-keeping to the method the RedHat implementation uses as postinstall.
That way we would keep alternatives happy. I consider this fairly important to
fix, but I don’t know when I come to it. If you have time it would be great
if you could research this.


Best regards

  — Dago

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