[csw-maintainers] cswclassutils fails in a zone

[Philip Brown]

On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 01:04:35PM +0100, Trygve Laugstøl wrote:
> 
> That's too bad as it make any package that depend on CSWclassutils 
> unusable in zones if you want to keep your global zone clean (as long as 
> you use sparse zones).

If you're doing that, then you're not using "sparse zones" right!

The whole point of "sparse zones" is to SHARE stuff between zones.
especially packages!
The only way to do that, i think, is to install the packages in the global
zone, as far as I know.
you cant have a non-global zone, "inherit" a package, from another
non-global zone, as far as I know.

What is "not clean" about installing the packages to the global zone?
That's the sort of thing that the "autoenable_demons=false" flag is for.
Set it in the global zone, and then basically all you get is a bunch of
files, rather than demons running on the zone.