On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 10:18:51AM -0700, Danek Duvall wrote: > > For example, it looks like pkg needs a syseventadm action. > > So the discussion in bug 509 indicates that this isn't actually needed for > boot, but could be done via an SMF service that runs at boot. Is that not > the case?
It was but I was forgetting about the remove case. How do I remove the sysevent without scripts or an action? > > Presuming this can be delivered in an update, how would I deliver > > packages that depend on that action to exist? Would I just depend on a > > certain version of the pkg package, or what? > > I don't think we've settled on a mechanism for this yet, but I think we're > leaning towards making this as automatic as possible -- either the IPS > package is always updated automatically, or all manifests are scanned for > unknown actions (and IPS-specific, but unknown, attributes), and upgraded > (or a warning given) if any exist. The latter sounds good. Former sounds dangerous :) regards john _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
