[csw-maintainers] cswclassutils install failed

[rupert THURNER]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 22:28, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 10:17:45PM +0200, rupert THURNER wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 16:43, Peter Bonivart <bonivart at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:48 AM, rupert THURNER <rupert at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> >> what would happen if one lives without classutils?
>> >
>> > Disregarding that you have to force past the dependency requirement it
>> > would be the equivalent of not running pre/post scripts. The packages
>> > that depend on cswclassutils use it for some combo of e.g. init/SMF
>> > support and handling of configuration files, see
>> > http://wiki.opencsw.org/cswclassutils-package for all features.
>> >
>> > What's the problem to install it in the global zone? Even if you don't
>> > have root access to it yourself you should be able to make a request
>> > for a package install, right? What would you do with a sparse zone if
>> > you needed a SUNW package that installed in /usr?
>>
>> we would need to make a request. as we have 1000 machines, and only a
>> few of them run opencsw it would be denied.
>>
>> i am wondering how it was done in the past? because we never had write
>> access and it always seemed to work. also the install description only
>> states /opt/csw as mount point.
>
> "in the past", we didnt use the class script as much.
>
> I would suggest that you make the request. you dont lose much by making the
> request, no?
>
> Afer that, as Peter B. said, you would have to run whatever is needful, by
> hand.
>
> Which is one reason I have been pushing to have the things called by the
> class scripts, in /opt/csw rather than /etc.
> This allows for tools to be written to do what is neccessary.
>
> You are basically in the same circumstances as kind of a
>  "NFS-shared /opt/csw" model. Perhaps this might motivate you to help
> write some of those tools? :-)
> The good news is, you would only have to do it once for each cswclassutils
> script that we have.

could you point me to an example?

rupert.