* Jordan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-05-24 00:46]: > Stephen Hahn wrote: > > Suppose apache.org published the exact same ant release as: > > > > pkg://opensolaris.org/vendor/apache.org/ant > > pkg://blastwave.org/vendor/apache.org/ant > > pkg://apache.org/devtools/ant > > > > Is there any way to for a consumer system to understand that > > they are equivalent for the purpose of dependency mapping? > > Perhaps you are looking for URIs instead of URLs. You want something > that identifies "what" instead of identifying "where". > > (isbn:0812976568 is a URI referring to a particular book. > http://www.amazon.com/Gospel-Flying-Spaghetti-Monster/dp/0812976568 is a > URL referring to a particular place where you might acquire the book.)
Actually, the URLs above are analogous to ISBNs, which differ for different publishers of the same text (or from the same publisher, but with different cover materials, large versus regular print, etc.). I'll go ponder on whether a URI would help here, though. - Stephen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
