On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 02:00:21PM -0700, Brock Pytlik wrote: > Last week Shawn and I were talking about why publisher continued to be a > confusing issue for our users. We came to the conclusion that one reason > that users were having problems was that we were conflating concepts in > the items we give a user to manipulate.
I posted my thoughts on this topic on July 22nd, 2009, in a post with subject "publisher metaphor seems incomplete". See also bug #10213, which contains much the same content as that post. To summarize: The current IPS notion of publisher is unfortunately _local_. Manifest signing will necessarily change that. But that's not enough to solve the problems with the current publisher metaphor. The distinctions between streams/repositories published by the same publisher needs to be encoded in metadata, not in the repository URLs. But please see bug #10213. Nico -- _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
