final: "install" on SCO Xenix
John Pettitt
jpp at slxsys.specialix.co.uk
Wed Apr 27 18:16:40 AEST 1988
>From article <19 at libove.UUCP>, by Jay.Libove at andrew.cmu.edu:
>
> Hello again world. I posted about the "install" program that was
> missing from my SCO Xenix system, but which seemed standard on BSD
> systems.
[some stuff deleted]
> Point of information: the /etc/install script on SCO Xenix is a shell
> script to tar off stuff from distribution floppies, no magic and not
> what I was looking for. The BSD install script does cp/mv operations,
> chmods, chowns, chgrps, etc... so you can give one command to "install"
> programs where they belong instead of many.
> --
> Jay Libove (Jay.Libove at andrew.cmu.edu or pitt!darth!libove!libove)
SCO provides two methods of installing software under Xenix.
/etc/install: this provides a simple tar the disk then run
a shell script type installation - the init script invoked can
be as simple or complex as you like.
/etc/custom: This is a far more complex installation and maint
program that provides the ability to install and/or remove
modules at will whilst maintaining the correct permissions.
It sounds from your posting that what you need is custom not
install.
We use both custom and install within our product range
and in general find that custom gives less problems but
takes more time to get right.
John Pettitt
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