Rob McMahon wrote: > I see people recommending that you not do this, but rather change the > URI of the opensolaris.org publisher, but I haven't seen why. I thought > the point was that you could have a list of publishers, and flip between > them. Is there something magic about a publisher called > opensolaris.org, or does it confuse things to have two publishers with > similar packages ? What am I letting myself in for ?
Two primary reasons: * eventually, the package client won't let you choose the name for the publisher -- it will get that from the package repository * the name of a publisher has subtle effects on how we determine whether we can upgrade packages Here's the related text from the latest man page update for the set-publisher command: --- With -P, set the specified publisher as the preferred publisher. When installing new packages, the preferred publisher will be checked first when determining which package repositories should be used for the retrieval of package content and metadata during package operations. When updating existing packages, if a package was installed from a publisher that was preferred at the time of install, then updates will be obtained from the current preferred publisher. For packages that were installed from a publisher that was not preferred at the time of install, updates will always be obtained from the original publisher regardless of the current, preferred publisher. --- In short, the package system doesn't consider packages from different publishers equivalent, so if you start mixing and matching publisher names, some may get "stuck" and not be upgraded. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker
