On Aug 19, 2009, at 1:24 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: > Jonathan Edwards wrote: >> (2) Decent pre/post-install methodologies: >> I do understand the desire to containerize this sort of thing >> within SMF, but i do not believe that there is a current mechanism >> defined to start/stop SMF services around a package installation .. >> also somewhat problematic for driver installs, or device rebuilds > > There are mechanisms to manage services. See 'Actuators' in the pkg. > 5 man page. As for driver installs, all of the functionality you > need should either be covered for them already or is in progress, > see 'man pkg.5' under 'Driver Actions' for details. >
I see the following: - reboot_on_update .. which seems a little extreme for many cases where you probably want to keep your system running - disable_fmri, suspend_fmri .. one for removal, one for installation - ok - refresh_fmri, restart_fmri .. seems to only affect existing FMRIs - how about packages that install an FMRI and want to import it? it seems to me that there should be an actuator to do a import_fmri and possibly an enable_fmri? is there a reason those are being left out? thanks in advance --- .je
