On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Shawn Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, > > Attached is the 2nd draft for the addition of an on-disk format to pkg(5). > Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated by the end of May 26th, 2010. > > For those that saw the first draft, you can find a webrev with differences > here: > > http://cr.opensolaris.org/~swalker/pkg-ondisk-2/ > > Cheers, > -Shawn
Perhaps I'm just not familiar enough with pkg, but have more of a general question about the on-disk format fits into a larger scheme of things. A common scenario I can see at companies is where there's an internal pkg server that contains the corporate 'blessed' software that should be used for installs/updates (instead of connecting over the internet to some other repository). In such a situation, ideally a single (internal to the company) depot server could be used to serve software from multiple publishers (i.e. not just Oracle). While I don't see anything with the on-disk format that would preclude this, it would be nice to have confirmation. In other words, ISV foo.com could send me a DVD of whatever software product I've purchased from them (in the above proposed format), and I could add it to my pkg depot server (which already contains Oracle software i.e. Opensolaris), so that I can (ideally) point my systems at a single depot server, and manage all the pkg(5) installed software from there (using http or https -- as it's more firewall friendly than NFS). _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
