Quoth Andrew.Rutz at Sun.COM on Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 04:26:11PM -0500:
> On 03/20/09 15:19, David Bustos wrote:
> 
> >Configuration is not magically rolled back on patchrm.  I suspect that
> >patchrm does restore the old manifest file, in which case SMF will
> >re-import it and restore the old defaults on next boot.  I don't know
> >whether patchrm is smart enough to do that when it is run.
> 
> >This only applies to defaults in the manifest file, though.
> >Customizations made after the manifest has been import should never be
> >undone by SMF.
> 
> how does SMF know if a name=value pair is a Default ? (and not a
> Customization ) ?
> 
> is there a Well-known set of name/value pairs? (or something)

We assume properties imported by svccfg import are defaults, and
properties changed otherwise are customized.


David

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