On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Stephen Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Peter Tribble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-05-29 20:14]: >> My understanding here is that the interpretation of >> >> pkg://a.org/vendor/c.org/ant >> >> Is that vendor c.org has created a piece of software "ant", and that this >> particular package is created by distributor a.org. This isn't a case of >> a.org providing a mirror copy out of their repository (in that case, the >> package name doesn't contain a.org); a.org have rebuilt/modified/repackaged >> or whatever the software and have done something to it that causes >> it to be published under their authority rather than somebody else's. > > No. The vendor/ namespace *is* the republishing of someone else's > (c.org) package in your (a.org) namespace.
OK, now I'm *really* confused. OK, So I create an ant package. Doesn't matter what ant might be. pkg://peter.tribble/ant and you decide to take that exact same package, unchanged, and republish it as pkg://stephen.hahn/vendor/peter.tribble/ant why would you do that? My interpretation of "republishing" is that this really is the same package. In other words, this isn't claiming equivalence, it's claiming absolute identicality. So what is the point of republishing a package like this? If it's the same, then why not simply use the original? What's the distinction between mirroring and republishing? And if I were to install pkg://stephen.hahn/vendor/peter.tribble/ant what actually gets installed? If I list the installed packages, do I see pkg://peter.tribble/ant or pkg://stephen.hahn/vendor/peter.tribble/ant ? -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
