On Jun 21, 2009, at 12:10 AM, Laurent Blume wrote: > Shawn Walker a ?crit : >> Which means nothing :) >> The on-disk format should be in the 2010.02 release. > > Cool, that's something I had missed, thanks for the heads up :-)
Obviously, it should be in a development build sometime before then, but I can't say when yet. >> I don't think it is much of a stretch to place files into a >> repository in a native package format where they are easily >> updated. The significant advantage for the ISVs are access control >> and significantly less bandwidth usage than a traditional >> distribution model. > > Historically, Solaris has been used in many secure environments. > I've been working in one of those. With no network access and > restrictions on the media you can use there, yes, it becomes a pain. > It's simply impossible to install a repository in each secure > network: the cost would be too high. > I know it's a particular case, and maybe Sun doesn't care about > those customers anymore (their salespeople sure didn't look like > they cared much...). But its' a case where IPS, right now, fails. In the future, the client will support access to a repository from the filesystem. Which means all you need to provide repository access is an nfs mount :) The publication tools already support this. I think you'll agree nfs mounts are pretty common in UNIX server environments ... Cheers, -- Shawn Walker
