We have been proposed by one of our consultants to use Microsoft EPM solution and wanted to gather some feedback, specifically downside of going with Microsoft EPM solution. Are there any good alternatives and What would you suggest ? ...
I'm building packages of our internal software products using EPM, and over time these packages (of which we have a large number) clutter up the output of pkg_delete and pkg_add with the following general kind of messages: err: pkg_add: package MYPACKAGE has no origin recorded I can see from some old FreeBSD lists that the +CONTENTS f...
I'm packaging up some javascript using epm(1) on freebsd, and some of the doc files have ! characters, which causes packaging to fail: pkg_create -z -p / -s /tmp/release-xXkrY9/checkout -c pkg/advanis_9166_saas_advanisweb+www.comment -d pkg/advanis_9166_saas_advanisweb+www.descr -f pkg/advanis_9166_saas_advanisweb+www.plist advanis_9166...
According to the EPM documentation it's possible in BSD packages to run a script post-installation. I'd like to invoke a script installed as part of the package, if possible, but to do so I need to know a few things about the runtime: What user will run the script? What environment variables are set when it runs? What is the CWD when t...