[csw-users] Installing OpenCSW via pkgutil, and to /usr/local?

[Dewey Hylton]

On Jul 26, 2011, at 9:23 PM, Victor Hooi wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm the person who asked the original question here:
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> http://lists.opencsw.org/pipermail/users/2011-July/008950.html
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> about using pkg-util and OpenCSW as non-root, due to a very locked-down environment. Thanks to Peter and Ben for their replies =).
> 
> I've asked again, and we can install packages (or rather, the sysadmins can for us), but it will have to be to /usr/local (internal rule), and not /opt/csw.
> 
> Also, I'm not sure whether we could get pkg-util installed, I think it will be more we give them a directory with packages, and they just run pkgadd on all of them.
> 
> I just want to check if there are any issues with this approach.
> 
> Firstly, is there any functional difference with using pkg-util and pkg-add? I have OpenSolaris installed locally in a VM - I was simply going to run pkg-util to install everything, get the list of packages from there (suggestions?), then download all of those into a directory to give to the sysadmins.
> 
> And secondly - will there be issues if they relocate the packages from /opt/csw to /usr/local (internal rule, unfortunately). Anything we need to do?
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> Finally, are there any issues with the order of installation? Normally, pkg-util would take care of dependency tracking and ordering here, but we're going with pkgadd. Should I give the sysadmins a particular order to install in, and if so, how would I go about getting that order via pkg-util on my local Solaris VM?

just a suggestion ... you may ask your sysadmins if they'd be kind enough to create a symlink for you. having done that, /opt/csw could easily be located at /usr/local/csw, and things may work as designed while still keeping your sysadmins happy.

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