Eric J. Ray wrote: > Vassili, > Cool--thanks for putting this out here! > > General questions: > Can the -M option be used multiple times? E.g., can you > point to -M /my/local/repository -M https://sunsolve/ -M > http://blastwave.org/ > to pick up patches/packages from several locations?
If we can give several locations then we need to decide where to take the patch from, I guess we'd want to take signed patches where possible. So if the same patch was on the disk and sunsolve, we might want to take the sunsolve version assuming we can verify the signature. > Does the -M option support proxies (or something like the > http_proxy environment variable)? What about authentication > to a specific server? In particular can I enter a sunsolve account id/password? :-) One further thing, what do we mean by requirements exactly? Do we mean the latest revisions of the required patches that satisfy the declared requirement, or simply the latest versions available. I'd opt for taking the latest requirements, but we may want to offer the option of getting the lowest revisions that satisfy. Cheers, ~Al -- Albert White - Patch System Test - Sun Ireland albert.white at sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/albertw
