fpb@uunet.uu.net (Frank P. Bresz) (10/08/90)
In article <0706TQG@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@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.