[csw-maintainers] CSWcswclassutils: it wants to write in /usr

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Ben,

Am 22.12.2009 um 17:38 schrieb Ben Walton:
> Excerpts from James Lee's message of Tue Dec 22 11:05:13 -0500 2009:
>
>> Other (ab)users of /usr/...
>
> What about things like CSWexim, and presumably CSWpostfix that might
> move /usr/lib/sendmail out of the way as part of the postinstall.
> CSWexim uses a prompt to handle this and has allows you to skip it.  I
> don't know about CSWpostfix and I don't use it.
>
> This is a somewhat different case, since it's the postinstall script,
> but there is still potential for 'partially installed' status here.

As we already talked about it the best solution is to have a separate
"Sun Functionality Replacement Package" in a different catalog which
is incompatible with the Sun package and doesn't break "install-all".


Best regards

   -- Dago