[csw-maintainers] Replacing existing Solaris functionality by OpenCSW packages

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi,

Am 24.11.2009 um 17:32 schrieb Philip Brown:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Dagobert Michelsen  
> <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
>>
>> ...
>> As there is a "install all" option in pkg-get which is used it
>> is adviseable to not install these replacemenet-packages by
>> default. This may be accomplished by one of the following
>> solutions:
>>
>> - Different [SVR4 pkg] prefix
>>
>> The addons would be named CSWX... to mark that they are Xtra
>> to install.
>> ...
>>
>> - Different catalog
>>
>> The extra packages may be put in a separate catalog.
>> ...
>
> Or by other methods.
>
> Such as defining additional standard global configs to go in csw.conf
>
> "replace_sun_pkgs=yes"
> or some such?
>
> Then a postinstall script could check for that, and
> rename/disable/replace/whatever as appropriate.
>
> I suppose we might even support different values.
>
> replace_sun_pkgs={replace,rename,???}
>
> (where one could mean simple "mv old binaries to .old", and another
> might be "actually put in symlink to our binaries, and yet another
> could mean "pkgrm conflicting")

No feedback for over a week.

Maciej, what would you prefer?

Peter, what do you think about a special pkgutil-mode instead of the  
csw.conf directive?


Best regards

   -- Dago