Shawn Walker wrote: > Jens Deppe wrote: >> >> >> Shawn Walker wrote: >>> Alok Aggarwal wrote: >>>> On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Jens Deppe wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello, >>>>> >>>>> Would it be reasonable to submit an RFE to have similar >>>>> functionality as >>>>> what post_install_repo_default_authority provides in the DC, in the AI >>>>> as well? >>>>> >>>>> I don't believe the capability currently exists to be able to install >>>>> from, say, a local repo, but then have the final installed system be >>>>> setup to have it's default authority set to something else. >>>> >>>> I think it is entirely reasonable to request >>>> this functionality. >>> >>> I do as well, but be careful here. pkg(5) records what authority a >>> package is installed from. While this should work, you will want to >>> do extra verification. >>> >> >> By 'verification', I presume you mean whether this is even feasible, >> as opposed to verification as part of the potential implementation? > > In other words, you'll want to be certain that the system still > installs, updates, uninstalls, etc. as you expected with one more > authorities configured and so forth. > > You should probably be cautious about what authority name you use since > that will be recorded in files on the system and thus be visible to > users that dig through the package files. >
I wasn't actually thinking about the authority name itself, but rather the URL for that authority. My specific use case would be for a manufacturing environment where I would need a local mirror of pkg.opensolaris.org to install from because access to the 'real' pkg.opensolaris.org is either too slow or non-existent. As far as pkg(5) permits, however, changing authorities should probably also be possible. --Jens
