Comments on the first 28 pages.
Page 8
2009.06 is described as offering complete support for developing
web applications -- one type of application among many. Why exclude
others?
Page 15
"package will be searched in the preferred publisher's repository
catalog first"
--> "package will be searched for in the preferred publisher's
repository catalog first"
(This is also a forward reference to the term "repository catalog.")
Page 17
"...then it is searched for in the other configured publishers"
--> "..then it is searched for in the other configured repositories"
Page 18
Dry-Run section
Dry-run various spelled with a regular dash, an em-dash and no dash.
Page 19
Remove italics on 'amp' in first pfexec command. (why is this line
repeated?)
This section would benefit from a brief explanation of the output
from the -nv
command or a pointer to where that information can be found.
Page 20
How does "server" relate to the concepts of "publisher" or "repository?
Example 3-4. Does the '-l' mean 'local'? Would be clearer to mention
this as
is done in Example 3-5 with '-r'.
Example 3-5. pkg example shown does not use '-r' switch
Example 3-6. What exactly is searched? In the returned results 'book'
is part
of a directory name, not a 'description'...
Example 3-7. Another mention of 'server' here.
Page 23
Section on displaying state and version incorrectly says "Use the
following
command to uninstall existing packages" when introducing 'pkg list'.
Example 3-10. Does '-a' mean 'even if not installed'? if so, not
consistent with
pkg info's use of -r. if not, a description of -a would be useful.
Page 24
I find this concept of publisher to be very confusing. On page 15,
the example
FMRI describes 'opensolaris.org' as the publisher, but in the
examples here
publisher is not a host-like string. I see from the 2nd example that
the
publisher name can look host-like (opensolaris.org and sunfreeware.com)
and in both cases the associated URL includes the publisher name. Is
that required?
In addition, the concept of 'origin' is introduced here (origin_url
and origin as
a TYPE) but not defined.
It would be very helpful if this could all be described more clearly.
The How to Remove a Publisher Config increases the confusion by
stating that the argument to -O is a 'repository' rather than an
'origin_url.'
Page 25
It also does not help that the output of the 'pkg publisher' command
labels
(for example) http://pkg.opensolaris.org/release as a URL. It is a
repository,
yes? Or is it an origin-url? Or are they the same?
How to Display Publishers: Says that publishers have associated URLs.
Should this be associated repositories? (which may be represented as
URLs?)
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