On May 14, 2010, at 4:17 PM, Shawn Walker wrote:
On 05/14/10 03:12 PM, [email protected] wrote:
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 01:39:00PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote:
Not to be glib, but if you care about installing packages from these
repositories, the solution is to debug why two of these depots
failed to
refresh. It looked like one was down (unreachable) and the other was
returning an unknown authentication error.
Right, but the general complaint in this scenario is that just
because some publishers have repositories that are offline or
unreacahable at the moment shouldn't prevent the install/image-
update/whatever operation from proceeding if that operation only
needs data from publishers that have repositories that are online
and accessible.
For example, if I'm installing the flash package from the extra
repository, it probably doesn't really matter if pkg.opensolaris.org/
dev is unavailable.
Bingo this is what made getting the software difficult as a newbie...
I was like "who cares about the down repositories, I don't want
software from there". Just gimme my software from the repo, OR gimme a
switch in the manpage that allows me to point to a specific repo. In
my case, I inherited the server, and I did not want to start "managing
repos" because the other admin may have wanted those around for some
reason...
Likewise, if we already have all of the data needed to perform the
operation and don't need to retrieve any, then failing the operation
just because the refresh failed prevents offline usage. That would
fit with the future enhancement we've talked about adding to image-
update, install, etc. where you have a --download-only option.
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