Chris Quenelle wrote:
The significance of the shorthand name of the publisher is new to me.
From Shawn's email it sounds like the shorthand publisher alias is stored
as part of the persistent package database, it's not just a shorthand
for the URL.
Correct, and it is not just a shorthand for the URL.
It is a forward or reverse domain name used to identify an entity that
provides software.
Is my understanding right? Was that the intended behavior? Has anyone
clearly explained all the ramifications of this? I'm not sure Shawn's email
made it completely clear to me. If we have a good explanation could it
be added
to the man page?
See bug 5299; it didn't make it in time for 2009.06.
I'm thinking mostly about the side-effects of changing publishers for
packages
that are already installed. Specifically for the packages in "entire".
Also people have been bitten by moving between 'dev' and 'release' and also
moving between different staging servers inside Sun.
Long-term, this will all be made much clearer, in the meantime, this
might help:
http://blogs.sun.com/srw/entry/what_s_in_a_name
Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
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