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

[Bart Smaalders]

UNIX admin wrote:

> What needs to happen is, after the package is deployed, the 
> Oracle database processes are running, the TNS listener is 
> accepting connections to the database, and the database is
> now ready to accept data.

How do I install such a package in an alternate root?
Or are such packages only installable on a running system?

Designing features into the packaging system that are unusable
in any context but a live install on a properly configured
system is a major source of breakage.

It is a requirement that the packaging system be able to
install packages onto an alternate root.  It is not a requirement
that the packaging system be Turing complete, or that you
can use it as a remote execution framework.

You can implement this w/ actuators in IPS; it will require
a SMF service to be running to handle your post-installation
tasks.  Note that packages built this way will actually work
on alternate root install, with Oracle running once that
environment is booted.

- Bart


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