Relocating a Solaris package (without losing it!)?
Steve Johns
Hi.
I wonder if someone can recommend a good procedure that allows an admin
to relocate the contents of a Solaris package to a preferred location
(i.e. a new BASEDIR) at installation time while still having the package
(along with its new location) registered in the system's primary package
database along with all the existing packages.
The -R option to pkgadd (e.g. pkgadd -d newpackage.pkg -R /local2 ) does
not have the desired effect because the package system info files are
installed subject to the -R path along with the package contents (as the
man page points out - and it don't lie).
- sj
jp...@my-dejanews.com
What you need is a pkgadd/pkgrm "admin" file. An admin file allows you to
override various default actions taken (or not taken) by pkgadd and pkgrm.
Here's one that will automate just about everything and change the basedir
to /opt:
instance=unique
partial=nocheck
runlevel=quit
idepend=nocheck
rdepend=nocheck
space=quit
setuid=nocheck
conflict=nocheck
action=nocheck
basedir=/opt
Put this in /var/sadm/install/admin/opt and you can then type the
following:
pkgadd -na opt -d <pkgfile> [pkgname]
"-n" tells pkgadd to run in non-interactive mode.
"-a opt" tells it to use the admin file "opt" in /var/sadm/install/admin.
You can call the admin file whatever you want, and even store it wherever
you want, as long as you give the proper path in the -a parameter. The
basedir= parameter is the one you really need to relocate a package. The
other parameters I included make the adding or removing of packages
packages mostly automatic.
Hope this helps.
- J
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- J