Brock Pytlik wrote:
About repositories - first, I'm assuming that there is a distinction between a pkg.depotd process and a repository. A repository would be identified by a unique URL, but a pkg.depotd process might eventually service multiple repositories. Is that right?There are three distinct entities, publishers, streams, and repositories. Publishers are the entities who put together distributions, sign packages, etc... Specifically, they distribute one or more streams (or trains or whatever term we settle on. dev and release are two examples of streams for the opensolaris.org publisher.). Repositories are simply collections of packages, possibly from multiple publishers and multiple streams from those publishers.
So assuming that a repository is identified by a unique URL (possible with mirrors that are identified by other URLs), what would be an example of where multiple streams would be served from a single repository? Also, what would be an example of where packages from multiple publishers would be coming from a single repository?
I'm wondering if the world would be simpler if we just chose to limit a repository to containing packages from a single stream from a single repository. This would make a 1:1 relationship between stream and repository - effectively the two concepts are the same.
Thanks. Tom
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