On 11/23/07, Danek Duvall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 12:33:55PM +0530, Venky wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 11:01:04PM -0600, Shawn Walker wrote: > > > I expect to seem them because that is the standard Sun has set forth > > > for package naming. > > > > True, and it was necessary for the old SVR4 packages. Are they > > still relevant now? > > No, and we're getting rid of the need for it. One of our next steps will > be to refactor and rename all of the existing packages in the WOS, and > we'll be gleefully dropping SUNW (and the other prefixes), using the > authority portion of the FMRI to serve the same purpose. > > Once that's done, matching can be done either as string component matches a > la smf (i.e., "blah" matches "pkg://foo/bar/blah", but not > "pkg://foo/blah/bar" and not "pkg://foo/bar/blah-something"), or with glob > characters. Suggestions on tuning that are welcome -- I prefer the current > strict match (along with tab completion), but I may very well be in the > minority. > > So assuming that the php5 package is reasonably well named -- say, > pkg://application/php5, then you'll be able to say "pkg install php5" and > it'll just work (well, assuming there aren't any other packages which can > be abbreviated this way). If we call it pkg://application/php5.0.1, then > you'd have to use "pkg install php5*", and we if we call it > pkg://application/pee-aich-pee-five, then you'll probably have to run "pkg > search php5" first to get a list of potential FMRIs. We probably can even > get it working so that you only have to do "pkg install /usr/bin/php5". >
Cool! We can probably have the metadata indicating the source. So the pkg commands (and GUI) can display an extra line in the description point the source as "Sun Microsystems" or "Sun FreeWare" or "Blastwave". In case of multiple sources for a sungle package, we can assign priorities? Also, I understand that the current IPS packages need to be availabe through an IPS server,thus requiring a webserver to run. Is ti also possible to point pkg to a pacages root in the filesystem (like /space/pkg/ ) and ask it to do it's thing there? Anil _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
