On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 03:29:11PM -0600, Shawn Walker wrote: > On 02/12/10 03:18 PM, Nicolas Williams wrote: > >On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:38:17AM -0600, Shawn Walker wrote: > >>With that said, the last bit (afaik) of functionality that has not yet > >>been implemented for user images is the ability for them to have a > >>parent image that can be used for non-relocatable dependencies, etc. so > >>that you can install one-off packages inside the user image while using > >>the dependencies in the parent. > > > >Hmmm, how would this work with remote home-directories? > > Don't know; as I said, parent image functionality isn't implemented yet. > > It hasn't been designed. >
i'm currently working on a proposal for linked images. it includes a discussion of user images and how they might work (althought the implementation is out of scope for the work i'm doing). hopefully i'll have something out to this list to review soon. ed _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
