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

From: Andreas Klemm (andreas@apsfilter.org)
Date: Tue Jun 10 2003 - 15:19:23 EDT


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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