On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 03:36:15PM -0400, Wyllys Ingersoll wrote: > It seems kind of like overkill to have to create an entire SMF manifest > to replace what 5 or 10 lines of shell script used to do. Are there > any libraries or generic methods that can be used to make the > changes needed? Mostly I'm talking about making edits to various > system files.
If they're not application specific files, then you're probably just ahead of the game. Casper just recently put back a wad to handle the RBAC files, but prior to that, you would have had to roll your own. For things like that, including /etc/services, /etc/project, and so on, eventually the mechanism will be fully implemented, but right now, there's just a place for that mechanism to plug into. > Yes, but I have yet to see a definitive procedure for attacking the > problem, most of the archive discussions are full of "possible > solutions", but I can't find a clear-cut description of how developers > should proceed with the migration to IPS. That's because there is more than one valid way to solve the problem. It's like asking what language you should code a program in -- the answer depends on the details of the problem you're trying to solve. Now, having all the information you need to make the decision most appropriate for your project laid out in one place is something we don't have yet, but are working on. Liane sent out a draft to the core team this morning. > there are a lot of packages in ON today that will fail when the > switchover happens because they don't fit the preferred IPS + SMF model. Note that all these packages are currently broken in OpenSolaris. So far, we haven't seen too many people complaining about that, so we can only assume they're generally unused software. Obviously for the transition to be fully complete, everything needs to be migrated, or declared dead. > It would be nice if the mailing list archives were searchable (I really > prefer the JIVE forums) but that is a separate issue entirely. There are searchable archives of the opensolaris.org mailing lists in various places. People seem to be fond of the ones at markmail.org. Danek _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
