Re: Bulk install of Sun .pkg Packages with CFEngine

[greg]

It's maybe not in your packaging plan, but stream format lets you "encapsulate" 
as many package as
you want in one .pkg file. Then, you can use the following command-line:

pkgadd -d /var/spool/pkg/MyStream.pkg SUNWfoo SUNWbar SUNWbaz

             greg

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---------- Original Message -----------
From: Geoff Davis <gadavis@ucsd.edu>
To: help-cfengine@gnu.org
Sent: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:11:14 -0700
Subject: Bulk install of Sun .pkg Packages with CFEngine

> Does anyone have a script or other trick for doing bulk installations  
> of Sun packages in streamed format, a.k.a. the .pkg files? The Sun  
> pkgadd command won't let you specify multiple packages to install on  
> the command line unless they are all unstreamed packages.
> 
> For example, if you have a bunch of .pkg files in /var/spool/pkg, you  
> can't just say:
> pkgadd -d /var/spool/pkg SUNWfoo SUNWbar SUNWbaz
> because pkgadd isn't smart enough to look in the pile of .pkg files.  
> It can only look in one .pkg file at a time with the -d option.
> 
> I'm hesitant to just copy the .pkg files over and then unstream them  
> on the client because I really don't want to have the package lying  
> around in two forms if I don't need to. By the same token, I don't  
> want to unstream the packages on the CFEngine server due to  
> CFEngine's inefficiency in copying multiple files over. I'd rather  
> just copy over the single streamed package than multiple subdirectories.
> 
> Thanks,
> Geoff
> 
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