On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:05:42PM -0500, Tom Mueller wrote: > 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, > > 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
It seems like advertising might actually be a more effective way to let people know what they're missing. How many people are actually going to look in the support repository and then decide to buy a support contract? It seems more likely that customers will be looking for fixes to software on SunSolve. If the tools informed the customer that their bug is fixed in a software update available in a pay-for-support repo, that might encourage them to buy a contract. Especially if we put links on the relevant SunSolve pages that allow them to easily do so. -j _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
