Another aspect of this is the ability to view the catalog content for a
restricted repository (support, extra) without having the ability to
install packages from that repository. This is to allow people that
don't have a support contract to see what they are missing, and thereby
be encouraged to get one.
The problem with this is that you don't want to require the user to get
a key/cert in order to have this level of access.
Tom
Shawn Walker wrote:
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,
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