Stephen, I understand your book analogy below, but I am having trouble applying that analogy to this statement from Glenn Lagasse, where he's describing "default authority" and "default repository":
Glenn states: "It's both in this instance. You can have multiple repositories and only one default authority (which is the default repository to pull packages from). If you only have one repository, then it's automatically the default authority." Can you help me extend your analogy to help understand the terms "default authority" and "default repository"? Barbara On 09/04/08 12:14, Stephen Hahn wrote: > * 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 > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/caiman-discuss/attachments/20080904/b89a2a5c/attachment.html>
