[email protected] wrote:
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.
So specifically there are the /contrib and the /pending repos. The
packages in /contrib are a subset of the packages in /pending. I
want to have both configured simply so I can pkg search/info on both
but only install from /contrib (and maybe from /pending when there
has been an update of an interesting package).
It would appear that:
pkg search -r -s http://pkg.opensolaris.org/contrib -s
http://pkg.opensolaris.org/pending dosbox
could work (apart from a search issue with pending) but then
I need to know the url's of the repos (or remember them).
What I am trying to get at is the ability to have a list of
pre-configured repos which can be searched but not necessarily
installed from.
Thanks
pete
-j
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