There are a couple of different things going on. There are two different kinds of mirror -- content mirror and full mirror. All we have implemented right now are content mirrors, and all they provide are the packaged bits -- no manifests, no catalogs. Full mirrors (you might also see "multiple origins") can serve up everything.
Then there's the orthogonal issue of transport. Currently HTTP/HTTPS is supported for retrieving data -- whether package content or metadata. We have plans to allow for other transports, including filesystem. This will allow you to install without having to set up a server. There's also the highly related issue of the on-disk format, which is a Committed file format / layout which the packaging tools (and others) can create and install from, over a filesystem interface. Additionally, there's repo-on-a-stick, which is a repository on which you can run a depot server, delivered as an ISO image. Generally this repository contains exactly one build of the WOS, unlike the rsync targets we have set up, which contain all builds. Danek _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
