On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 10:53:45AM +0530, Venky wrote:
> 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.

Mostly it's pointless because you'd be wasting a lot of cycles using
HTTP to access a local resource.

> 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

Yes, I pointed out that this was being discussed.

A filesystem-based depot would effectively be an on-disk format.  But it
could still hide the details from the developer (who might still have to
use pkgsend to "submit" the pkg into an on-disk depo).

Nico
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