James Carlson wrote: > Dermot McCluskey writes: >> That's exactly what I started doing. But after over 100 lines of >> awk, I realised there were lots of scenarios I still wasn't taking >> care of in the install CAS, and I hadn't even started looking at >> the remove script yet. So yes, it is reasonably complicated. > > I see. > >> I think SMF provides a much more suitable way to update >> these files. Is there a general policy or desire to avoid >> proliferation of SMF services? > > It's a bit icky. It's somewhat akin to self-modifying behavior, in > that the installed software goes through some sort of lengthy > "rebuild" after the first boot.
Any reason to introduce yet another "next boot" thing when we already have the postrun service to do exactly this kind of thing ? -- Darren J Moffat
