2008/6/26 Jordan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ... > How does this model map over to IPS? Since IPS works only from a > repository, it would appear that each developer must have a personal > repository, and moreover may need to have multiple repositories when > working on multiple releases or multiple variants in parallel. I don't > see any other way, but that seems like a very heavyweight answer. > > We could just work with SVR4 packages most of the time, and only convert > to IPS for official builds, but that seems wrong, both from a purism > standpoint and because it means that developers would not be testing > what's actually being deployed. > > Does anybody have any thoughts on the subject?
I'm desperately hoping to restart my work on a prototype soon that decouples the existing depot and repository code such that you could use a client to perform installs directly from a repository. My thought at the moment is that the syntax would work out like this: pkg -s file:///repo/dir -a authname=blah (the authname being required because we don't currently store the authority information in the repository???) This would basically solve the on-disk format problem and allow significant flexibility in how we serve repository content. -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
