Now I know this is unlikely to happen, but I would like to throw this in for consideration on whatever is being worked on:
We have written a lot of packages that consist mainly of postinstall scripts, i.e. not delivering any functionality, but merely adding to the configuration of the system. Those packages caused us much grief as we tried to adopt zones, cause us grief during upgrades of our systems (where we tend to replace our in-house developed packages, but need to skip those that do system configuration work), cause us grief as we are looking at other provisioning systems... If here was a sysidcfg API we wouldn't have to do system configuration through postinstall scripts in packages. Whilst I title this and mention a "sysidcfg API", I doubt that will ever come to fruition. It merely is a plea to consider other system configuration, but those provided by the OS install mechanism, and open any future technologies so we as a user can hook into it. - mo (kind of hoping that this mail can be answered with a RTFM link to the Caiman documentation:)) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2196 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/attachments/20071120/64f228a5/attachment.bin>
