FYI: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=854
Enhance IPS to automatically qualify OS-agnostic repository URLs such that the correct OS-specific repository will be consulted without adding unnecessary complexities for distro owners and end users. The Update Center toolkit project is proceeding with the approach recommended by the pkg project to work with owners of multi-platform product distro owners to establish a distinct package repository for each supported OS. A side effect of doing so is the explosion of repository URLs that will be exposed to end users. Assuming that any multi-platform product will end up having a set of repositories for its own packages and that 3rd party repositories and/or Sun controlled repositories will emerge, the distro owners would need to communicate many OS-specific repository URLs and the end users would need to understand which ones are relevant to their circumstances. For example, GlassFish V3 is supported on at least the following OS platforms: * Windows x86, x64 * Linux distros x86 (perhaps x64 in the future) * Solaris x86, SPARC * OpenSolaris x86 (SPARC in the future) * Mac OS PPC, x86 Others will be added down the road. The GF V3 project will be maintaining an IPS repository for each of these OS platforms. Over time, 3rd party and perhaps Sun-maintained repositories will also emerge. The GF project would like to specify a generic URL for their core GF V3 package repository and depend on the IPS infrastructure to map that URL to the appropriate package repository server. The GF project is open to modifying their setup of repositories to enable a sensible mapping to occur. (Right now, we're using the same hostname, but different URLs to represent the repositories for each OS). _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
