I've seen discussion of deferring some actions to an SMF service[*] that
would be pinged after pkg installation (or, in the alternate root case,
would simply run at next boot).
I also noted Jordan's comment about deferred action failures, that there
should be a way to tie deferred actions to specific pkg installs and to
check their status. I'd like to second this.
Since each service ping could potentially run multiple deferred actions
I think we'll really need a structured way to check the exit status of
each action and to log per-action messages in a way to ties back to the
actul pkg install (or remove).
I figure most actions will be scripts, so a simple CLI by which to tell
IPS that some action has started to execute, and later that it has
completed and the satus, would be good. C and Python APIs to do the
same would be nice too.
An SMF upgrade/config/whatever method would probably also help by
distinguishing deferred actions from traditional service start/refresh.
Nico
[*] Specific to each pkg, with a generic one for pkgs not associated
with any service?
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