Software installation opinions needed
Frank P. Bresz
fpb at ittc.wec.com
Fri Sep 28 12:11:59 AEST 1990
In article <0706TQG at xds13.ferranti.com> peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>And to top it off, this on a system that already has one of the best
>automatic software installation systems I've ever seen.
Well it isn't necessarily one of the best I have ever seen.
However SUN uses something called extract_unbundled (usually run as root).
To load their add-on packages. It does a fairly nice job. The question I
would like to have answered is? Does SUN encourage/support use of this
script by 3rd party vendors? If not, why not? If so why don't more people
start using it. From what I can tell all it requires is write access into
/usr/tmp a fairly innocuous place. Can anyone offer any details.
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