On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:11:41PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > [email protected] wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:35:51AM +0100, 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). >> >> What are you trying to accomplish? Can you give a more thorough use >> case here? >> >> A catalog is a list of things that are available from a particular >> source. In IPS, the catalog is a list of packages available from a >> publisher. It doesn't make a lot of sense to issue a catalog but then >> make the items unavailable. "Here's a list of things you cannot have," >> seems confusing from a software installation stand point. > > I think the intent is to provide administrators with the knowledge that > there is additional software that could be installed if they opted to > enable additional publishers.
Ok, but I'm still trying to get at what this allows us to accomplish. If we want to enable customers to see a package and then install it using the Sun patented two-click order system, then that's a little different from just having the catalog be searchable from the pkg command. I think we'd have a better idea about what technical solution is needed, if we had more information about what this feature would be used for. -j _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
