I believe the enhanced SMF profiles project is almost far enough along
to be useful to Caiman developers. To ensure we're coding in the right
direction, please verify my understanding of your use:
- Before an automated install, you want the user to specify an SMF
profile file which sets properties on certain services.
During the install, your software copies the file into the
filesystem.
During boot, you want SMF to apply the profile to the repository, so
software can read the properties and see the customizations.
If that's correct, I have a few questions:
- Will the customizations need to be upgradable? In other words, if
the user specified a file which customized property P to value
C during the install, do we need to allow him to specify a new file
which specifes no customization for P so that we revert P to the
default value?
- Can we guarantee that the root filesystem will be writable at boot,
or do you support UFS roots?
- AI is supported on SPARC, correct?
You can view the current code at
http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/smf-profiles/gate/ . The README
has instructions for building and installing it into a zone.
David
