* Shawn Walker <[email protected]> [2009-02-17 17:53]: > Stephen Hahn wrote: >> I know there was a flurry of messages last week on authority/0 and the >> MIME type. Is there a summary of where things are? In particular, > > I've just started on the work needed to implement the authority APIs that > the GUI folks want. > >> are the following operations equivalent in the current proposal? >> >> 1. Direct URL >> >> pkg set-authority -A http://pkg.opensolaris.org/authority/0 >> >> 2. From downloaded file >> >> curl http://pkg.opensolaris.org/authority/0 > myauth.p5i >> pkg set-authority -A ./myauth.p5i >> >> (They need to be.) > > That was my intention. > > However, I should note that my plan was to first implement the authority > APIs and then make the changes for the authority/0 operation and the code > to parse/export it as a follow-up. > > Before I can implement authority/0 though, there are some things I need > confirmed: > > * That it is ok to implement as we discussed in the authority/0 thread on > 12/23/2008.
Yes, although I am not sure all questions raised in that thread were answered. (My first pass suggests that the majority were.) > * Whether multiple authorities can be present in the output of authority/0. Maybe--I don't think we went through this use case in full. I do want to check on the types of the various fields in the authority/0 response. There are a couple of fields that I believe need to be list-valued, where the current implementation would only consider a single value for the field as relevant. > * That it's going to be ok to backpublish SUNWpython24-simplejson when we > backpublish SUNWipkg so that the json dependency can be satisfied for older > builds. Yes, I believe so. > Based on your answer, I'd be happy to send out a short summary of what the > direction going forward is. Cool; thanks. - Stephen -- [email protected] http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
