Bart Smaalders wrote: > Dave Miner wrote: >> Dan Price wrote: >>> On Wed 12 Mar 2008 at 10:09AM, Dave Miner wrote: >>>>> So is the plan that sysid is going away completely or is this just for >>>>> the Live CD ? >>>>> >>>> We haven't made any decisions yet about sysid. I'd certainly want to >>>> change it a lot if it does stick around. >>> Well I'll add input that you cannot, from my perspective, simply nuke >>> it; otherwise, how will zones get an identity? >>> >> We wouldn't be able to nuke it without resolving that problem. >> >> Dave > > The right answer is probably a config method for smf. That's a bigger > project that we have time for right now. > > For now, I'd like to suggest the following: > > Each package that wishes to install a sysidconfig method > delivers a symbolic link to it in /etc/.sysidconfig.dir. We modify > /lib/svc/method/sysidtool-net to first rebuild the /etc/.sysidconfig.apps > file using the target of the files in/etc/.sysidconfig.dir if its > modification > time is newer than /etc/.sysidconfig.apps, prior to invoking sysidconfig. > > Packages could then deliver the symbolic links and no post-install or > other special actions would be required. >
That's certainly workable, but really, at that point there doesn't seem to be any need for .sysidconfig.apps. Just run the links in .sysidconfig.dir. Dave _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
