Stephen Hahn wrote: > * Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-07-21 05:52]: >> * Changed repository to generate a type 4 UUID on startup if the >> repository doesn't have a valid UUID already > > Could you expand on how you see the depot UUID being used in a load > balancing situation? (For instance, pkg.opensolaris.org is load > balanced across a set of identical depots which use a common catalog, > package manifests, and files, but keep separate statistics, and are > hosted on multiple systems. With what aspect of a depot's operation > is the UUID associated?)
At the moment, it it is to provide a unique identifier for the RSS/Atom feed generate by the repository. All of the pkg.opensolaris.org servers would need to share the same id so that the feed generated by any of them would be considered the same one by feed readers. It would (in theory) also make it easier for clients to treat a repository as being the same when its url or metadata changed (with appropriate certificate verification of course). It just seems like it would be useful for identification purposes and the privacy aspects don't seem to apply as much to the server. -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list pkg-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
