"Peter Tribble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Joerg Schilling
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> There are no equivalents of pre- and postinstall, no equivalents of pre-
> >> and postremove?!?!?
> >
> > I heard anbout this seveeral times and I am wondering how one would install
> > a
> > driver without this feature.........
>
> Because IPS knows how to handle driver installation as
> a first class operation without having to resort to postinstall
> hackery. (As it understands how to handle other common
> classes of object. that might be installed on a system.)
Driver installations modify files like
/etc/name_to_major
/etc/driver_aliases
/etc/devlink.tab
/etc/minor_perm
...
by inserting lines. Parts of this work is done by calling add_drv(1M)
but others is done by including shell or sed scripts into the driver's
postinstall code. Are you sure that everything a driver may need is in IPS now?
Jörg
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