Alan Maguire wrote: > Peter Memishian wrote: >> > Honestly the best thing that I'm coming up with at this particular >> > moment (given the urgent nature) is for us to give you a call to >> > specifically rotate the snapshot before reboot. (Or, at least to remove >> > the running snapshot so we automatically fall back.) >> >> Our target integration date (which aside from this issue is on-track) is >> in two weeks; can something be cons'd up in that timeframe? Seems pretty >> tight. >> >> > i had a look at this over the weekend and have a prototype > fix for CR5087504 - it adds a 'refresh' subcommand to > svccfg, which, when an instance is selected, will take > a (new) running snapshot from the editing snapshot. the > error handling needs work, and i'm not sure that refresh > is the right name (since it may imply that the refresh > method is run also), but it may serve as a starting point. > i've tested it on an alternate repository (consisting of > the seed only) and a running repository, and it seems to > work fine. if i'm on the right track with this, i'd be happy > to push on with it if it'd help, but i'd need codereview/PSARC > fasttrack sponsorship help of course. > > meem, if you want access to the bits for testing, let > me know (you'd just need to ensure the new svccfg > is in your install image and add > > /usr/sbin/svccfg -s physical:default refresh > /usr/sbin/svccfg -s physical:nwam refresh > /usr/sbin/svccfg -s datalink-management:default refresh > > ...to SUNWcsr's postinstall script). > Hi Alan,
Can you please let me know how to install you new svccfg binary? I'd like to see how it works for the dependency updating problem I ran into for backward-bfu. Thanks - Cathy
