Woa! Hang on a second. Here's what David Bustos said:
> So any patch which alters a manifest will cause manifest-import to try
> to upgrade the corresponding service, no postinstall action necessary.
> And if the user either modified that manifest in place and reimported
> it, or if he even copied it somewhere else, modified it, and
> reimported it, svccfg will think that that modified version is the
> official one (via the last-import snapshot), and will happily override
> all customizations after the patch.
CT
Stephen Potter wrote On 05/22/06 23:09,:
>>Unfortunately you're reading too much into it. The site directory is
>>intended to be a home for site-specific services, not for service
>>customizations.
>
>
> We had one of our Solaris Evangelists tell us to do exactly that during a
> training. He told us not to modify the manifest in place, because a patch
> could overwrite our customizations, but to copy it to site/ and modify it
> there. Maybe he meant that we should also rename it to ${site}-service as
> well.
>
> Steffen, if you're reading this. ;-)
>
> -spp
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