* Barbara.Lundquist at sun.com <Barbara.Lundquist at sun.com> [2008-09-04 18:57]: > In this line from a sample Distro Constructor manifest, is this URL a > repository or is this URL an authority. Is there a difference? > > <pkg_repo_default_authority> > <main url="http://indiana-build.central:10000"; authname="example.com"/> > <mirror url="" authname=""/> > </pkg_repo_default_authority> > > I'm still struggling to differentiate between a repository and an authority.
In the above example, the authority is "example.com", the packages from which are being served by the repository running at port 10000 on indiana-build.central. A book analogy might be that my copy of "The Elements of Style (illustrated)" was published by Penguin (authority) but was purchased from/shipped by Amazon (repository). - Stephen -- sch at sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/sch/
