Hi All,
As described by Laca in April [1] upgrading GNOME packages with IPS is
problematic as various caches need to be updated.
Currently it is handled by postinstall scripts. As this functionality isn't
(intentionally) provided by IPS. The creation of SMF services to update these
caches is needed.
AFAIK the IPS actions are not implemented at the moment so these
services will be for the moment run at boot time instead of when an IPS
action is triggered by a package being installed.
So based on research done my Matt Keenan, Darren Kenny and Laca I've
implemented a draft of these services.
You can look at the code via the svn repo here :
svn+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/svn/jds/desktop-cache/trunk
If you want to build the package using the Desktop CBE you can use the
spec file included in the repo.
Each SMF service adds a dependency to svc:/application/graphical-login/gdm
this way all the caches are up to date before any graphical application is
running.
The general design for each service script is to check if the cache is
older than the items it is meant to cache if so the cache is regenerated.
This ensure the time spent at boot time by these services is minimum if no
package upgrade happened.
This code is likely to be added to the Desktop consolidation for the GNOME
2.22 upgrade (in a week's time) so reviews/comments from IPS and SMF point
of view would be more than appreciated :)
Thanks in advance,
Erwann
[1] http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/pkg-discuss/2008-April/0026
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