* Brock Pytlik <[email protected]> [2009-09-30 00:55]: > In short, I believe the right place to do this is actually in the same > place we do indexing. By default, what it should do is remove the > files from the download area which have been removed or changed in > the new packages. Only the imageplan has this knowledge, and I don't > believe there's a sane way to put that approach into the file_manager > b/c it doesn't have access to the plan. Changing the layout will make > emptying the cache each time significantly faster, allowing users to > more easily choose that setting. Of course, we'd also need a "keep > everything setting" and there are probably other settings based on > time/size/the phase of the moon that we may eventually want to > support. All of these are not this bug. I see nothing in the current > design that would prevent an implementation of any of these, if you > do, please give concrete examples. In fact, I see this work making > those steps easier b/c now there's a central location through which > well behaving code will add and remove files, making it easier for > there to be something that has knowledge of the state of the layout > as a whole.
I had thought the layout applied to both client and server, but the above paragraph is concerned with only client-side management. Is the layout object only for client-side use? Thanks Stephen -- [email protected] http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
