With all due respect, preferred authority and default repository are synonymous. We just happened to choose one set of terms over the other.
It seems correct to equate a preferred authority with a default repository. -j On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 03:56:34PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > Lynne Thompson wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > > > Thanks for the link to your site. I've added more to the preferred > > repository description > > to help clarify this rather complex situation. Is this better? > > > > =========== > > o Preferred repository: > > A default repository that is the source for packages. > > If a user does not explicitly specify a repository when installing > > and updating packages, the preferred authority is chosen as the > > source for packages. > > > > During the creation of an image, the initially specified authority > > is marked as the preferred authority. Any one of the authorities > > associated with an image may be set as the preferred authority by > > using the set-authority command with -P option. > > All references to repository above should be "authority". > > Cheers, > -- > Shawn Walker > _______________________________________________ > pkg-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
