[pkg-discuss] updating kcf.conf/pkcs11.conf in an IPS world

[Danek Duvall]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 07:50:01PM +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote:

> Bart Smaalders wrote:
>
> > Why would services "phone home" to download new functionality?
> 
> I don't know where this came from in my context as that certainly 
> doesn't happen.

I think (I'm hoping) that Glenn got confused by this paragraph in your
original proposal:

    I propose that we change the start and refresh methods for
    svc:/system/cryptosvc to be a script that first checks that
    kcf.conf/pkcs11.conf are up to date and if not makes them so by doing
    basically what the i.kcfconfbase and i.pkcs11confbase class action
    scripts do today.  Since this isn't a class action script it won't be
    quite the same code but it will be similar.

In particular, "checks that ... are up to date" could mean either:

  - go out on the network and get the latest ones

  - check in a directory to look for fragments and rebuild the full file as
    necessary

I assumed the latter, Glenn appears to have assumed the former.  So far,
you haven't actually responded directly to either one of us, so the
question is still up in the air.  I thought that "... by doing basically
what the i.* class action scripts do today" cleared it up, since they
*don't* go over the net to pull down new versions, but maybe I'm wrong
there.  Or Glenn just missed that bit.

Danek