* Dermot McCluskey <dermot.mccluskey at sun.com> [2007-05-09 09:02]: > Is there still resistence to the idea of adding a new SMF service to handle > this type of problem? > > The main objection raised seems to be that we already use other methods > for this kind of thing (CAS and Postrun). > > The CAS approach (re-write install-info in awk) looks prohibitively > complex in this case. Postrun is a lot better but still requires > developers to maintain a version of the same script per > Info-containing pacakge. The SMF approach puts less overhead on > developers and works with files installed by means other than > packages. Stephen also addressed concerns about alternate root > scenarios. > > Should I submit the ARC case, or are there still too many fundamental > objections?
I still prefer this approach for known resources; it will also make me polish up application/catman (automatic index generation [1]) to a suitable state for discussion. (Basically, it needs a short start method to scan the directories, check that the index file is newer than any of the subdirectories of a given directory, and issue a catman -w invocation for that directory if not.) - Stephen [1] http://blogs.sun.com/sch/entry/bespoke_services_application_catman -- sch at sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/sch/
