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

[Bart Smaalders]

UNIX admin wrote:

> The problem is, the server(s) onto which software is installed might
> already be running. In production. You cannot possibly expect that a
> cluster of servers running SWIFT transactions between Europe and the
> U.S., or any other financial software or mission critical software,
> must be rebooted in order to have the database automatically start!

Of course not, and it's not required with IPS today.

If you did want to be able to provision a new boot environment,
it would be nice not to have to start Oracle as part of the
postinstall script, though, wouldn't it?

IPS requires that all packages be able to be installed into a
non-running image, so we do not support scripting as package
developers never seem to understand that the software they're
installing might not be able to run right now.

- Bart

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