> Anon Y Mous wrote: > > I care a lot about about OpenSolaris and I want it > to be a massive success in the future and beat RHEL > and IBM AIX, but in order for it to eventually become > successful, I think that the following point cannot > be emphasized enough: > > I think you should read this announcement: > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=1 > 08575&tstart=0 > > Your suggestion for clone-repository, while > understandable, is not > practical.
Why isn't it practical? >From a data center business perspective, it's very practical. I can now >create a master repository for all of my systems, clone them to regional >servers across my enterprise and now I can install and update multiple systems >in an area without internal bandwidth costs. Downloading the entire set once is far better than downloading the same packages several thousands of times for large customers. If done correctly, once a clone is made, then keeping the clones up to date would only mean incremental changes to the repositories - perhaps doing some sort of built in proxy action where one could specify a local cloned repository to proxy the packages to local systems so they are only downloaded once from the main repository - no matter what that repository would be and customers could customize the repositories for their own business needs. Seems like there is still a desktop focus instead of data center focus with some of the tools > > Cheers, > -- > Shawn Walker > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
