Quoth James Carlson on Fri, May 18, 2007 at 03:47:52PM -0400: > As part of fixing CR 6392582, I need to detect whether the system > being upgraded has ever run SMF and thus avoid the gymnastics > necessary for upgrade from non-SMF. I able do so by checking for the > existence of one of these symlinks, created by the undocumented > "svcadm _smf_backup" feature added by CR 5102864: > > $BASEDIR/etc/svc/repository-boot > $BASEDIR/etc/svc/repository-manifest_import > > Doing this seems like the simplest and easiest to defend > implementation. The problem, of course, is that it's an undocumented > interface, and it could be ripped out from under me. I thus need to > make it Stable.
I don't recall the particulars of how inetd upgrade works, but can you delay the conditional work to after boot? David
