Sundar Yamunachari wrote: > Dave Miner wrote: >> Sundar Yamunachari wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> The update to the the design document for the AI spring release >>> based on comments, feedback and design considerations is at >>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/auto_install/Design_doc_delta_for_AI_Spring_2009.1.pdf. >>> >>> This can be also accessed from the Caiman documentation page at >>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/auto_install/Documentation. >>> >> >> 1.1 The service dependency descriptions here have been superceded, I >> believe, by the results of discussion around jean's design note from >> last week. >> >> I have concerns about the service configuration file proposed here. >> Was storing these in SMF property groups considered? The data seems >> compatible with doing so. One of the points of SMF was to reduce the >> need for lots of configuration file formats, each with their own >> custom parsers. Are there other factors arguing against use of the >> SMF repository? >> >> Dave > The data will be used by different installadm subcommands. For example > 'installadm list' will get the list of services using this data. This > data is also used by other installadm commands needs information about > the service (create-service, delete-service, add & remove). My > understanding is that the SMF install service method will use the > installadm commands to start and stop install services and will not > touch use the data directly. >
None of this usage is contradictory to storing this configuration in SMF. Dave
