[SunHELP] pkgmk prompt

[Joshua Fielden]

I don't have this problem building packages -- what's the command-line you're running that actually creates the package?

JF

nathan.nichols at cicadacorp.com quoth, on Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 03:19:31AM -0600:
> From: nathan.nichols at cicadacorp.com
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> Subject: [SunHELP] pkgmk prompt
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> Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 03:19:31 -0600
> 
> I have built some scripts to automate the building of a package (for use
> with pkgadd) on Solaris 7.  Everything works well, except that there is one
> little quirk that I'd like to get rid of.
> 
> The pkgmk command insists on querying for an instance to make.
> 
> 	The following packages are available:
> 	  1  <PKGNAME>     <PKG Description>
> 	                  (sparc) <Version>
> 	
> 	Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to process
> 	all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]: 
> 
> I would like to be able to skip this query and automatically build #1, or
> all.
> 
> The pkgmk man page says that an instance can be specified on the command
> line, but the man page is very vague on what effect this will have on the
> operation of it.
> 
>      pkginst   A package designation by its instance. An instance
>                can  be  the  package  abbreviation  or a specific
>                instance (for  example,  inst.1  or  inst.2).  All
>                instances of a package can be requested by inst.*.
>                The asterisk character (*) is a special  character
>                to  some shells and may need to be escaped. In the
>                C-Shell, "*" must be surrounded by  single  quotes
>                (') or preceded by a backslash (\).
> 
> I've tried 1, init.*, init.\*, init.1, <PKGNAME>, <PKGNAME>.1, with no
> results.  <PKGNAME>.1 creates a second entry on the list.  I'm also not even
> certain that specifying this parameter in any form will cause this prompt to
> be skipped.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> -----
> Nathan Nichols
> Unix System Administrator
> Cicada - http://www.cicadacorp.com/
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