pkgadd install its packages in the /opt directory . How can I change
this automation . From any place found I install the installation goes
into
/opt/newdirectory of package.

In article <7ecaee57.0402241312.3b537a5e@posting.google.com >,
ehab_aziz2001@yahoo.com (hpy_awad@yahoo.com) wrote:

> pkgadd install its packages in the /opt directory . How can I change
> this automation . From any place found I install the installation goes
> into
> /opt/newdirectory of package.

You keep asking the same question, and you've received numerous answers,
all valid. You should really look into adding more space to /opt, as
you'll find that most SVR4 packages want to install there.

Trying to do what you're doing will work for the short term if you
really, really need that particular package, but in the long run, you're
gonna run into problems. Don't symlink the directory, either - pkgadd
and patchadd don't like symlinks; they tend to break them (and does
*that* get interesting!).

And, no, pkgadd does not install things into /opt - pkgadd only installs
where the package's pkginfo file says to install it.

Bottom line, take another look at your partitioning scheme and think
hard about re-doing it.

--
Ken

Real address krgray*at*verizon*dot*net

ehab_aziz2001@yahoo.com (hpy_awad@yahoo.com) writes in comp.unix.solaris:
|pkgadd install its packages in the /opt directory .

No, pkgadd installs packages into the basedir specified in the package.
If it installed all packages into /opt, the whole OS would be there,
since it's all installed as packages by pkgadd.

|How can I change this automation .

"pkgadd -a none" and then specify a different basedir - but be warned,
not all packages will work correctly if you do this, depending on how
they were built.

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