[indiana-discuss] "no scripting zone" and isaexec(3C) == architectural

[Michael Brug - Sun Germany Technical Solution Center - Duesseldorf]

On 14.06.09 09:20, Bernd Schemmer wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>> You'd write an SMF service (start method included) that does all the
>>> configuration, then you'd pacakage it (with corresponding dependencies
>>> on the pkgs that deliver the Oracl DB product), and you'd add this pkg
>>> to the incorporation that your machines install.
>
>
> Arrg -  and that should be more secure than using a postinstall script???
>
>
> Sorry, but using an SMF Service for configuring an application makes 
> developing of packages more complicated and will lead to lot of new 
> errors ....
>
And how could the postinstall start the database, if the install is not on the live system? In case of live upgrade we have seen a lot of errors, where packages were not trully relocatable. We also had packages
and patches which could not be deployed properly to a jumpstart image.
The package was checking for the architecture and as it was an x86
jumpstart server, it failed for a sparc package. Same if the package 
expects hardware, which is available on the client, but not on the install server.


Best regards
Michael
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