On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 09:52:17PM -0800, Danek Duvall wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: > > > Right now, the p5i API expects either a file-like object or the absolute > > pathname of a file. > > Johansen suggested in person that perhaps the transport code could spit out > a p5i object, just like it spits out manifest and catalog objects, and that > seemed reasonable to me.
Just to clarify, the reason for this suggestion was that if the p5i object failed to parse, the transport could retry and would know which depot generated the error. This would save the caller from having to re-implement support already provided by the transport. -j _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
