[8639] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: Solaris Jumpstart AFS install
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russ Allbery)
Mon Apr 16 18:46:39 2001
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In-Reply-To: Thomas Vincent's message of "Mon, 16 Apr 2001 10:42:26 -0700"
From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Date: 16 Apr 2001 15:40:15 -0700
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Thomas Vincent <thomasv@apple.com> writes:
> I am currently working on a jumpstart profile for OpenAFS. The most
> difficult part of the process (I come from a OpenAFS perspective) would
> be to create a Solaris package of OpenAFS for the jumpstart
> server. Solaris would just treat it like any other program.
Our experience with Jumpstart has been that the more we can avoid using
the Solaris package format apart from the actual operating system, the
happier we are. We do all installation of this sort of thing, including
the AFS client, using postinstall scripts.
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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
