Clay Baenziger wrote: > Hello, > I'm thinking how to go about integrating the hopefully soon to be > available print-manifests and delete-manifest commands into installadm. > The usage I have for each is: > delete-manifest [-i instance] manifest A/I_service_dir > print-manifests [-c] A/I_service_dir > These are the usage of you internal scripts. In the installadm, the usage for add and remove manifest are:
installadm add -m manifest -n svcname installadm remove -m manifest -n svcname This manifest is the criteria and it contains pointer to AI manifest and SC manifests. This usage is consistent for add and remove Why you need an instance in remove? How do you explain the instance to the user. We are not getting the instance from them. How do the admin know how an instance correspond to a manifest? My suggestion is to keep it simple for the user. You keep track of the criteria file and the manifests (parts of criteria). Use it to remove. Don't show instances to the user because you created the instance to manage it efficiently. The same applies for 'installadm list -n svcname'. Give the list of AI criteria and manifests to the user. I don't want to complicate the user interface. > These options provide flexibility, but that wasn't planned in installadm. > For delete-manifest it allows one to delete a specific set of criteria for > a particular manifest (opposed to every criteria set for that manifest). > For print-manifest -c prints the criteria and instances out opposed to > just the manifest names. It seems this provides significant benefit for > admins, but how should installadm offer it? > We are deleting manifest here. We are deleting only the criteria. If the AI manifests are used by other criteria, we don't delete them. If the criteria being deleted is only one uses a specific manifest, we can delete the manifests. > Right now there's installadm list with the usage "list [-n <svcname>]" > which is overloaded to mean provide a service and get manifests for that > service otherwise get a list of services. Would it make sense to change > the usage to "list [-n <svcname> [-c]]"? > I think by default you should print criteria and manifest names. Criteria is only one user provides to 'installadm add' command. > Otherwise, for remove the usage is: "remove -m <manifest> -n > <svcname>". I don't believe there's any overloading planned, but perhaps > I'm wrong? If not I'd propose changing remove to have the usage "remove > -m <manifest> [-i <instance>] -n <svcname>" to allow an admin to remove > either an enitre manifest or just one criteria set for that manifest. > Again the admin is adding/deleting only criteria. Importing the manifests is what your program does to keep track of the manifests. So I don't think any change in installadm remove/list is needed. Thanks, Sundar > Thank you, > Clay > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >
