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

[Gary Law]

Hi all

What a can of worms I've opened, sorry... anyway...

2009/12/22 Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com>:
> I was just reminded of something that I hadn't mentioned much on the
> list before now.
>
> When I first came up with the idea of us using class action scripts, I
> had always thought that it would be beneficial to also provide some
> utils to run needful things manually (primarily for the case of nfs
> shared /opt/csw)

I have to say the number of installations with shared nfs /opt/csw
would -- I guess -- be far fewer than the number with zones with read
only /usr.

> Before now, this has not been seen as important. But now would seem to
> be a good time to bring this up again :)
>
> if we provide an alternative CSWcswclassutils package, whose function
> is, "go run actions that normally get done at pkgadd time", then we
> could cover the very small amount of people who are "blocked" by our
> regular version of the package deploying to /usr.
>
> This would be an ALTERNATIVE to our regular  package, rather than replacing it.

That gets my vote if there's a way to handle the dependencies.

Gary
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