automatic package installation of www.sunfreeware.com software fails (Sol8 / jumpstart / Startscript)

From: Andreas Klemm (andreas_at_apsfilter.org)
Date: 06/10/03

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    Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 21:19:23 +0200
    To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
    
    

    Hi,

    need to get some scripts done for a mass installation and
    I don't have much time ....

    How do I get the packages from http://www.sunfreeware.com
    installed in a Jumpstart environment (here Startup scripts
    without a control tty) without having to create answer files
    using pkgask ...

    I made good experience using "here" scripts in jumpstart to
    install interactive packages. If I additional redirect stdout
    to /dev/null then I don't get trouble because of the missing
    control terminal, since I start a bunch of scripts within
    rc2.d start scripts (staging, using several reboots) ...

    But now I'm really in trouble, since the solaris 8 packages
    from www.sunfreeware.com refuse to install

    %----------- snip
    #! /bin/sh

    # stage-06-script
    # /etc/rc2.d/S99-stage-06

            [...]
            mount jumpstart:/export/jumpstart /mnt
            cd /mnt/Addon/5.8
            pkgadd -d zlib-1.1.4-sol8-sparc-local > /dev/null <<- EOM
                    all
                    y
                    EOM
            [...]
            exit 0
    %----------- snip

    yields in:
            [...]
            Installation of <SMCzlib> failed.
            No changes were made to the system.

    Well, this fails installing the package without any other failure
    message than that ...

    I installed for example SDS without any trouble using a similar syntax.
    The only difference is "-d .", since the SDS packages are in directory
    format, not this "one file format".

    Any clue ??

            Andreas ///

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