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

Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski maciej at opencsw.org
Thu Dec 10 09:32:46 CET 2009


On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Peter Bonivart <bonivart at opencsw.org> wrote:
> 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. :-)

For the record:

http://www.opencsw.org/bugtrack/view.php?id=3760



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