On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 02:29:23PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > Tom Mueller wrote: > >I'm not yet sure if having the concept of a "stream" makes this easier > >to explain than just talking about "repositories". > > Having the concept of streams allows users to largely be unaware of the > existence of repositories. It also allows you to have a single > repository for multiple streams. > > The current concept of trying to limit which software train is used > based on repository has been a constant issue for our users in the past. > I can't count how many systems now where the user has had both the > /release and /dev repositories configured under separate publishers and > was switching between them to determine the software train to use. > > I'd also add that having the concept of streams is a necessity if we > ever want to get to the point where the ON 'release train' of packages > can be mixed with JDS 'dev train' of packages.
+1 What IPS has now is a metaphor based on book publishing, more or less. But there's no book publishing equivalent of having a whole set of specific versions of pkgs tied together as a single entity -- libraries/ bookstores may have various editions of specific books, but they don't all have specific sets of specific editions of specific books. It's time to leave part of that metaphor behind. Nico -- _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
