[csw-maintainers] cswclassutils fails in a zone

[Trygve Laugstøl]

Philip Brown wrote:
> 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.

Because I'd like to keep the zones at different versions of opencsw (as 
opencsw doesn't provide snapshots I have to do that myself with rsync) 
to reduce the risk of stuff breaking.

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Trygve