I could swear that I was involved in a discussion about this very thing a while back. Please change this behavior as you describe below. Developers and administrators should both be much happier.
-Norm Liane Praza wrote: > We're seriously considering changing the behaviour of r.manifest when it > is invoked on an enabled (and running) service to simply do "svcadm > disable -s; svccfg delete", rather than failing with an error and > forcing the administrator to type svcadm disable before removing the > package. > > I expect service developers will be pleased with this, as they'll no > longer implement this logic in their own packaging scripts. Anyone else > have any concerns about such a change? > > (The IPS folks are planning the same approach for their SMF action.) > > liane > _______________________________________________ > smf-discuss mailing list > smf-discuss at opensolaris.org >