[OmniOS-discuss] /var/svc/manifest dir purpose

[Eric Sproul]

Steve,
Indeed, /var/svc/manifest is an older location for manifest files.
With the introduction of the "system/early-manifest-import:default"
service a few years ago, that location was deprecated in favor of
/lib/svc/manifest.  The early importer runs before svc.startd and only
looks in /lib/svc/manifest, where the main manifest-import service
runs later and looks in both.  The reason that early-manifest-import
was added was that it was possible for an existing service whose
manifest had been updated to be started using the previous
configuration, as manifest-import was yet to run and discover the
updated manifest.

The reason dbus.xml is still in /var/svc/manifest is because it is one
of the additional components OmniOS adds to the illumos core
(system/library/dbus).  We should update our build script to deliver
the manifest into /lib/svc/manifest/system instead.

The situation is similar for /var/svc/profile.

Eric

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:44 AM,  <steve at linuxsuite.org> wrote:
> Howdy!
>
>       I noticed that /var/svc/manifest exist and only contains
> system/dbus.xml
>
>       What is the purpose of this directory and why dbus.xml not live
> in /lib/svc/manifest/system with the others?
>
>        /var/svc/log I understand, but am not sure why /var/svc/profile and
> /var/svc/manifest are there. A leftover or for the future, backword compat?
>
>       -steve
>
>
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