On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:13:04AM -0700, Dan Price wrote: > On Thu 16 Jul 2009 at 12:48PM, Shawn Walker wrote: > > >That confusion could have been easily avoided by the installer not > > >having named the repo opensolaris.org. That should be changed so that > > >its obvious it is dev and not opensolaris.org/release > > > > It is intentional that the publisher is named 'opensolaris.org', the > > publisher name isn't intended to reflect which repository you are > > currently using for a given publisher. > > I believe that the publisher metaphor is intended to be akin to a book > publisher-- so, your copy of "Catcher in the Rye" is published by Little > Brown, but you probably obtained it from Borders, or Amazon, or your > local library (the repository).
As with book publishing, you have the problem that there can be many publishers for essentially the same contents (particularly for books with expired copyrights, which in the case of software happens when different people build the same code). What should happen if I enable two publishers that publish the same pkgs (possibly the same versions, possibly not)? IMO that should be an error at image-update time. This may come up a lot when ONNV and other consolidations begin producing IPS pkgs and BFU and gate public bin update scripts go to legacy software heaven. _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
