On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 03:56:11PM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote: > > An on-disk format for pkg would allow the SYSV->PKG translator > > to be unbundled. > > But you still have to submit the package.
Not if the pkg client can install directly from the on-disk package. > > Not having an on-disk format is very mind-blowing for the average > > developer. If you want people to use this technology, you have > > to provide some guidelines for what the normaly daily development > > process is supposed to be like. And also what the release > > engineering process could be like. For example: How does my > > nightly build produce packages? How do I hand off > > the bits to RE, how does RE stage them to an internal testing server? > > etc, etc. Many of these people won't be admins and won't have > > the ability or desire to create and maintain their own servers. > > A script built around the pkgsend command would be an ad-hoc on-disk > format. Considering that SVR4 pkgs are typically built by scripting > around pkgmk(1) I don't see a big difference. IPS pkgs that are not in > a repository are useless; That, IMO, is the issue. I know at least two groups within Sun which are currently exploring ways to ship packages on a CD. The best way currently seems to be to ship the repository image in the CD and launch a local depot server to serve those packages -- which is kinda pointless because that authority is going to go away as soon as the packages are installed. Shawn, I think, is planning on implementing this and allowing packages to be installed without having a depot server. http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=2660 Venky. _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
