Peter Dennis - Sustaining Engineer wrote:
Are there plans to have a 'catalog only' access to a repository ?
That is I want to configure my system such that it allows for
the search of /pending or /contrib repositories but does install
the software from them without some form of explicit actions
to use software from those (that is I cannot accidently do a
pkg install foobar but I can search to see if foobar exists
without having to use a browser to point at the repositories).
I think I see what you're after, but no, to my knowledge there have been
no plans to implement this specific functionality.
It sounds like you're asking for software sources to be searchable
without them being available for packaging operations.
To me, that seems useful but also possibly very confusing to users
depending on how it it is presented and implemented.
I should note that search now allows you to search repositories if you
provide their URI (even if that URI doesn't belong to one of the
repositories for the configured publishers within an image).
As for possible implementation, it might be interesting to add an option
to search to include "disabled" publishers. A GUI could then choose to
prompt a user to enable a given publisher if the user selected a package
to install from them.
Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
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