Mike Shapiro writes: > > I'd think running manifest-import earlier in boot would be a complete fix > > to this issue, but it's not clear to me what the schedule of that work is. > > Until that fix is available though, the alternatives seem limited -- the > > only one that occurs to me is to have net-physical manually start dlmgmtd > > (through svcadm if possible, though previous attempts to do this failed). > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Thanks, > > -- > > meem > > As a point of general design, we should always be extracting the new > smf tools to a temporary location and using those tools, so you can > avoid the need for flag-days of this nature. i.e. the archives themselves > can move themselves past a flag day.
At least for Live Upgrade, that would mean building those SMF tools on some S10 system, so that they could be extracted and run during an upgrade from S10 to something else. We've done that for some of the SUNlu* tools in the past, but it's a bit of a pain for pretty much everyone involved. :-/ -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
