[csw-maintainers] cswclassutils: location of template init scripts

[Philip Brown]

Maciej, you seem to wish to go down the pedantic path. So okay, lets
get pedantic :-)


On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 4:40 AM, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski
<maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
> No dia 16 de Junho de 2010 18:38, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> escreveu:
>> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski
>> <maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
>>> ...  The definition of CAS
>>> is that they handle the installation of files, with potential
>>> additional processing.  Having CAS process other files is something
>>> that CAS isn't intended for.  I know that you can hack it, but it
>>> might cross the fine line between use and abuse.
>>
>>....
>
> Your two above paragraphs sound as if you thought that I'm questioning
> the use of classutils, which I'm not.  I'm saying that classutils are
> designed to process given lists of files.

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/806-7008/6jftmsc38?a=view

"Object classes allow a series of actions to be performed on a group
of package objects at installation or removal."

This is ambiguous. It doesnt say that renaming the objects, or
duplicating, or removing, objects, is either explicitly allowed, or
explicitly denied. It merely says "actions", on "objects" with the
only limitation that the objects be associated with the package.


My view of this is:
 Since the entire purpose of system standard utilities such as
"installf" and "removef", are to DYNAMICALLY create and remove files
associated with the package.... files that, **by definition**, are not
in the initial prototype/pkgmap file... then the ambiguity is strongly
resolved in favor of "it is allowed.".





>  Even though you could write
> a CAS that processes additional files under certain circumstances
> (empty input), I think this is a bad idea, because:
>
> 1. It relies on undocumented behavior which might change (CAS being
> called with empty input vs CAS not being called at all)

Actually, it is *explicitly documented* behaviour.

again, from the above url:

"Note –

Even if there are no regular files of this class anywhere in the
package, the class action script will be called at least once with an
empty list and the ENDOFCLASS argument.
"