Cathy Zhou wrote: > 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. > > just a quick note to say that there's a webrev at
http://cr.opensolaris.org/~amaguire/svccfg/ ...which contains a possible suggested fix for 5087504 svccfg should allow 'refresh' of services on an alternate repository as per my last email. (i've sent Cathy details on how to get the associated binary and code changes individually, if anyone else needs these let me know). thanks! alan
