My original question
> I have a vendor package without an interactive request script. I would like
> to run the installation of this package hands-off. Can I create an
> interactive request script for the package so that I can use pkgask to create
> a response file? Will I need to ask the vendor for this? Does it depend
> on how the vendor put the package together?
> My hope is that the hooks for the request script are standard to the package
> format. I have looked through the online documentation for packages in
> Solaris 2 but found no answers to this.
The answer had two parts
1) Upgrade the vendor software I was using. The old level was not supported on
Solaris 2.5.1. Then use pkgask again.
pkgask ran with the later version of the software, but still did not produce
a response file. I created one manually that worked just fine withthe new
software.
2) Alter the /var/sadm/install/admin/default (actually use a new one) to
override the questions that pkgadd itself will ask about setuid and running
scripts as superuser. This pointer came from the software vendor.
For those who are curious the package was Legato's Networker Client for Solaris,
version 4.2.5.
Thanks to the following for responding.
Tomas Felner <Tomas.Felner@ubs.ch>
Michael Bennett <mjb@liffe.com>
Marc S. Gibian <gibian@stars1.hanscom.af.mil>
Dave R. Smith
dsmith@lexmark.com
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