webrev updated to address David?s comments and includes agreed help text. thanks again to Liane, David and Tom for having a look!
http://cr.opensolaris.org/~amaguire/svccfg_refresh/ alan David Bustos wrote: > Quoth Liane Praza on Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 10:57:44AM -0800: > >> This is getting far more precise than the previous formulation, and is >> getting less clear to me. Especially the part about "currently selected >> repository is being monitored by svc.startd". >> > > I think that's more likely to be understandable to more people than > "alternate repository". But it's entirely possible that I'm > underestimating users' familiarity with SMF. > > >> I'd really prefer something that helps the user based on how they got in >> the situation rather than helps them based on how the system is >> behaving. That is, tells them that the snapshot is updated, and if you >> didn't use the "repository" subcommand, refresh method will be called, >> perhaps tells them other restarters may act differently. Would that be ok? >> > > Yes. I'm just concerned for the people who don't know, or have > forgotten, that the running snapshot is supposed to be authoritative for > most configuration. I think "commit" makes that clear, whereas "update" > hints at it and leaves the user to extrapolate. But I don't want us to > spend an inordinate amount of time on the help text, so I'll accept > whatever you and Alan choose. > > > David >
