Danek,

> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 09:14:19AM -0800, Rich Burridge wrote:
>> [email protected] wrote:
>>
>>> A general question - do we know why some of the dependencies aren't
>>> being auto-discovered?
>>
>> I don't. Maybe Danek or Bart have some ideas.  I can also investigate
>> further if you like.
>
> Well, we only look at ELF dependencies right now, and as far as I  
> can tell,
> we're getting all of those right.  What we're not getting, because  
> we're
> not looking, is the service dependencies.  svc:/system/nws-ii  
> depends on
> svc:/system/nws_sv, for instance.

I am confuse by this statement, as I would never expect IPS packaging  
to have awareness of SMF service dependencies.

Case in point,  the AVS packages provided SMF manifests which contain  
specific service dependencies, but these dependencies, and others are  
modified in real-time, based on the output of certain run-time  
utilities, like 'clinfo' - display cluster information. AVS is Solaris  
Cluster aware, and vice-versa, and if clustering is enabled, it makes  
sense for SMF to control service dependencies, in lieu of the old run- 
level scripts.

It is my understanding that service dependencies are not being checked  
in Solaris / Nevada, so where is the added value of doing this within  
OpenSolaris?

> Danek

Jim Dunham
Engineering Manager
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Storage Platform Software Group
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