Quoth David Finberg on Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 03:41:46PM -0500:
> I should have been more clear.  The property group 'dcs' being of type 
> 'dependency' and not 'application' is what is confusing svccfg and SMF's 
> inheritance.  It seems that comes from
> 
> /var/svc/manifest/platform/sun4u/dscp.xml
> 
> ...
>         <dependent
>             name='dcs'
>             grouping='optional_all'
>             restart_on='none'>
>                 <service_fmri value='svc:/platform/sun4u/dcs:default' />
>         </dependent>
> 
> Are there standards on naming property groups? And if so, where? 
> Regardless, naming your config group the same name as your service is 
> asking for a heap of trouble.

Yes, dependents are supposed to be named with some form of the
dependency's name as a prefix, to avoid precisely this.  This violation
is

        6458309 dscp names dependents badly

A fix is in progress.


David

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