Shawn Walker writes: > Volker A. Brandt wrote: > > Antonello Cruz writes: > >> You lost me here. What you mean by "new service state"? The service > >> states are well defined; uninitialized, offline, online, degraded, > >> maintenance, disabled, legacy-run - see smf(5). and I don't see new > >> states being added in the near future. > > > > That is the point: I suggested adding the new state "package". > > Maybe you missed a few messages in the thread... > > No one did. The point made earlier was that a new state 'package' was > not necessary or accurate. The services that the package might > leverage, are general 'self-asssembly' services that may or may not have > application beyond the install, update, or uninstall of a package.
So, the problem becomes one of identifying "wanted" and "unwanted" services, or those "doing work" or "not doing work". Just having duration set to "transient" in the manifest is not enough IMO. Regards -- Volker -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Volker A. Brandt Consulting and Support for Sun Solaris Brandt & Brandt Computer GmbH WWW: http://www.bb-c.de/ Am Wiesenpfad 6, 53340 Meckenheim Email: [email protected] Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bonn, HRB 10513 Schuhgröße: 45 Geschäftsführer: Rainer J. H. Brandt und Volker A. Brandt _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
