[indiana-discuss] "no scripting zone" and isaexec(3C) == architectural

[Nicolas Williams]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 09:59:28PM +0200, a b wrote:
> 
> > I think what's missing there is a tool to make the above simpler:
> > something that takes your start method, SMF FMRI, pkg FMRIs and
> > incorporation FMRI and does the rest for you. Even better, if this work
> > can be done once and made to support the use of profiles (as you suggest
> > below) to do the configuration. Then the tool would be simpler still,
> > as simple as you want it to be.
> 
> The most important thing would be to be able to remotely (from the install
> server) fire up an SMF method/service, if the system is currently running
> like a diskless or an AutoClient would be, for example).
> 
> If that capability were provided, then that would be the escape hatch.

We don't support diskless clients _except_ as a detail of how netinstall
works.