2008/6/27 Felix Meschberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, > > After adding OBR referral support (with hop count) as per FELIX-399 > recently I started with prototyping a setup for this functionality. I have > created a "master repository" at [1] which contains referrals to the Sling > repository at [2] and Clement's prototype at [3]. > > If you update your felix framework to the latest 1.1.0 SNAPSHOT build of > the bundlerepository project, which I just deployed to [4], you can add the > master repository, for example typing in the Felix Shell > > obr add-url > http://people.apache.org/~fmeschbe/repository.xml<http://people.apache.org/%7Efmeschbe/repository.xml> > > Listing the existing repository URLs should then give you all three > mentioned above. > > Now, what does this help ? IMHO this proves the idea, that we can have a > single master repository referring to other repositories without requiring > to duplicate entries. > > So we could provide such a master repository at our site, e.g. > http://felix.apache.org/repository.xml (this is not there yet ;-) ). And > upon requests by projects we might add referrals of a defined depth (I would > say 1 by default, but not too big, either). > > WDYT ? >
+1 this should help with OBR adoption, and give our code a good test too :) > Regards > Felix > > [1] > http://people.apache.org/~fmeschbe/repository.xml<http://people.apache.org/%7Efmeschbe/repository.xml> > [1] > http://people.apache.org/~fmeschbe/sling-repository.xml<http://people.apache.org/%7Efmeschbe/sling-repository.xml> > [3] http://oscar-osgi.sourceforge.net/obr-repo/releases.xml > [4] > http://people.apache.org/repo/m2-snapshot-repository/org/apache/felix/org.apache.felix.bundlerepository/1.1.0-SNAPSHOT/org.apache.felix.bundlerepository-1.1.0-20080627.095454-3.jar > -- Cheers, Stuart
