On 6/8/07, Stephen Hahn <sch at sun.com> wrote: > > * Keyur Desai <Keyur.Desai at Sun.COM> [2007-06-08 09:14]: > > > > Need a recommendation. During pkgrm, some preremove scripts > > in Solaris disable the associated SMF service, and some > > just give a warning and fail pkgrm. Users must manually > > disable the associated SMF service (via "svcadm disable") and then > > proceed to remove the package. > > > > Is there any best practice around this ? > > It's my position that a manual package removal of an enabled service > should be classed as a mistake, and blocked. An evaluation whether > this position is an actual best practice is difficult, since it would > require knowing how many times an incorrect removal was stopped by the > restriction--and not just how many inconveniences it's raised. (In a > de-installer, or other higher level package manipulator, it's easy to > write code that leads to the convenient outcome, of course.)
How about a warning prompt? e.g.: Warning: XYZ service is currently enabled. Do you wish to disable and continue with the removal? brian -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/smf-discuss/attachments/20070611/e2929fe4/attachment.html>
