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

Peter Bonivart bonivart at opencsw.org
Thu Dec 3 00:01:57 CET 2009


On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Gary Law <glaw at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Been chatting with Maciej about a bug/feature I've hit where I can't
> properly install CSWcswclassutils, as it wants to write in /usr, and
> that's mounted readonly (it's a non-global zone).
>
> Does this mean CSWcswclassutils violates policy? I thought we had to
> confine ourselves to /opt, /etc/opt/csw and /var/opt/csw
>
> Maciej suggested non-global zones and/or non-writable /usr aren't
> supported by CSW, which may be correct, but is news to me.
>
> Thoughts?

It's how Sun designed it. Just install that package from the global
zone and be done with it. :-)

-- 
/peter



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