Shawn Walker a ?crit : > 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 ...
They are, but again, anything needing network access isn't much useful when you don't have network access. So, doing that from files on a CD is needed. And it has to be individual packages. Duplicating a whole repository when only a few packages need to be upgraded is a waste of time, even more when you have to do this for several isolated systems and small network segments. And there's the obvious case pointed out by HeCSa: what if you need to get an upgrade to have that network connectivity in the first place? Copying files by hand, add_drv and such, it doesn't make IPS look so modern :-) Since it's is all new and great, it should rightly take those limitations into account from the start. I've got a feeling that "the network is the computer" has turned into "the computer won't work without a network" :-) Laurent
