Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 02:57:36PM -0800, Jordan Brown (Sun) wrote: >> Darren Dunham wrote: >>> You could look through and find all the services that >>> currently depend on the single-user milestone. On my >>> system, there are only 3. Adding your service as an >>> additional dependency wouldn't be too hard. >> Yeah, but that's not very sustainable, since a new service could pop up >> at any time without us knowing about it. > > But you could check for this at shutdown time, no? > >> Ah well. That's what I expected. I just wanted to know if there was >> any less obvious way to accomplish the goal. > > Perhaps there should be.
Perhaps, but probably not based on single-user. single-user is really much bigger than what's needed to patch a system. (and sometimes smaller, given the 'zones need more filesystems mounted to be patched' stuff I've seen) I'd still like to see the actual dependencies for installing single-user patches enumerated rather than encode more infrastructure around the current ad hoc mechanism. I'm also wary of doing a bunch here now if the actual goal is to make single-user patches go away because of how IPS works. liane
