Nicolas Williams wrote:
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.
It's already encoded in metadata, look at
http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/publisher/0 (with wget) for an example.
The client just doesn't leverage this metadata yet.
Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
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