On Tue 28 Jul 2009 at 12:51AM, Shawn Walker wrote:
> Dan Price wrote:
> >On Sun 26 Jul 2009 at 08:02PM, Rich Reynolds wrote:
> >>so thanx for the redirection, i was under the false assumption that
> >>pkg-discuss was about IPS as a technology not the implementation at the
> >>repository level...
> >
> >[Trimmed CC list]
> >
> >Rich-- Not an unreasonable assumption :) But Shawn is right. For now,
> >anyway, pkg-discuss is the place.
> >
> >I'd like to have some sort of "having trouble?" link which would help
> >in troubleshooting, but we're not quite there yet.
> >
> >Shawn-- this might be a potential enhancement for publisher/0-- where
> >the user should seek technical assistance with connectivity (or other)
> >problems for said repository. That could be a webpage, or a url,
> >or something else I suppose. Sort of like the old HOTLINE field
> >in SVR4 packaging, except that was useless.
> >
> >It could also be rendered on the web app at some point, too.
>
> Suggest a name and we can add it to the pkg.client.publisher.Repository
> object which in turn would have it go into the publisher/0 output and be
> useable by the BUI.
>
> Perhaps:
>
> maintainer: John Smith <jsmith AT foo com>
> support_uri: http://helpme/
"support" is really overloaded. I'll try to think of something
closer. We should probably write out a *very* clear description
of what these mean, or people will put all sorts of random stuff
in them :)
-dp
--
Daniel Price, Solaris Kernel Engineering http://blogs.sun.com/dp
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