On 26/04/13 17:08, Raymond Auge wrote: > Hello All, > > (this may already exist, if so forgive the noise... and then please > point me to it :) ) > > Does it make any sense to have a means for bundles to declare their host > repository, and if there is such a "capability" installed in the > framework, that the repository be registered automatically with the repo > admin? > > I'm taking as example the Debian feature (I believe it originated in > Debian first) that a deb can register it's host repository with the > system. From that point, dependencies and updates are automatically > detected and handled. > > For example, when you install the Google Chrome deb (after downloading > the binary directly from their site) it registers the Google Chrome > repository with the system and from that point you never have to go get > updates manually.
Chrome does this because the only thing in that repo is Chrome. Looking at rpm/yum: normally you'd install an rpm package to make the repository known. So that would translate to a 'my-repository-bundle.jar' that would configure the framework with the extra repository information. I like the idea :-) > > If such a mechanism could be acted upon early in the installation of a > bundle, it could actually provide a place for retrieving any actual > dependencies required for the bundle from the host repository. > > This would be great feature as you could promote a single binary > somewhere as a download, which would auto-magically ensure dependencies > were met on deploy even without interaction by the user doing the > installation. > > -- > *Raymond Augé* <http://www.liferay.com/web/raymond.auge/profile> > <http://twitter.com/#!/rotty3000> | Senior Software Architect > | *Liferay, Inc.* <http://www.liferay.com> <https://twitter.com/#!/liferay> > > --- > > 24-25 October 2012 |* Liferay **Spain Symposium* | liferay.com/spain2012 > <http://www.liferay.com/spain2012> > > 16 November 2012 |* Liferay **Italy Symposium* | liferay.com/italy2012 > <http://www.liferay.com/italy2012> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OSGi Developer Mail List > [email protected] > https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev > -- Ferry Huberts _______________________________________________ OSGi Developer Mail List [email protected] https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev
