[csw-maintainers] relatocatable packages and package scripts

[Ben Walton]

Hi All,

For the openjade project, I need to write a postinstall/preremove
script pair to register/unregister the installed catalogs, using
scripts provided by the sgmlcommon package.  The install-catalog
script creates an new file in /opt/csw/etc/sgml based on parameters
passed in and then adds an entry to /opt/csw/etc/sgml/catalog to
reference this new file.

How would one handle PKG_INSTALL_ROOT in the face of something like
this where the dependent script is unaware of the altered root
environment?  Do you simply do a case check against PKG_INSTALL_ROOT
and alert the user to run the commands manually when the new
environment is booted if the root isn't / or ''?

Thanks
-Ben
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