Renee Danson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 04:45:22PM -0800, Liane Praza wrote: >> Renee Danson wrote: >>> The original problem we were trying to solve with the network/location >>> service (and the reason it's an smf service) was how to cause all the >>> services which have configuration that's updated when a new location is >>> activated (I'll call these location-related services) to notice this >>> change. We could have nwamd walk through and refresh or restart each >>> one in turn; or we could take advantage of the "restart_on" dependency >>> that the smf framework offers. If each of the location-related services >>> has the appropriate restart_on refresh dependency on the network/location >>> service, all we need to do is refresh that service, and the changes will >>> ripple out to all the other location-related services. >> What if I just gave you a simplified profiles implementation which took a >> profile of service properties, applied them, and did a refresh? I could do >> that quite quickly if it would avoid all of this. >> >> You'd then set the alternate configuration file as a property in the >> *profile*, rather than copying files around. Most services support the >> alternate config file (which Jim also suggested) nicely, and it'd be >> trivial to add to ones that didn't bother yet. The move to Enhanced >> Profiles will be very easy then too. > > I'll need to think about it a bit more; but at first blush, I think > that would be extremely helpful. How soon is "quite quickly"?
A few days, at most, for something that is a very coarse emulation of enhanced profiles. (And I mean VERY coarse, but I think it'd be enough to keep us all on a converging trajectory.) Let's chat quickly Monday if this sounds useful to you. > We definitely try to use service properties where possible (setting > an alternate config file path, for example); adding that to the ones > that don't currently was a direction we wanted to move in, as well. > However, other things we're installing aren't related to a service at > all--which might be one fly in the Enhanced Profiles ointment. Do you have an enumeration of these other things? liane
