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
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