Hi all,
Sorry for the confusion/delay on this web page content, my replies
inline below.
Shawn Walker wrote:
Brock Pytlik wrote:
Alan Burlison wrote:
Brock Pytlik wrote:
What I'm suggesting is that on the
opensolaris.org home page, a relatively prominent link be placed which
points to a page detailing other known (good/decent) repositories a user
might want to add to get more software (please see my original email for
an example of the list of possible repos I could think of).
There's already a link to http://pkg.opensolaris.org on the home page
('Package Search'), and http://pkg.opensolaris.org would seem to be the
correct place for a list of package repos. However, that site is
managed by the IPS (your) team, I suggest you ask internally.
I disagree, especially because we're not going to be the only ones
hosting repos. As I mentioned in the original email, pointing to places
like blastwave and life with solaris might be helpful as well. I would
also respectfully suggest that "package search" doesn't really suggest
to me "list of useful repositories" were pkg.opensolaris.org to be
changed to have such a list. However, I will add pkg-discuss to this
conversation since it appears that any proposed change might need to be
synchronized.
While we plan on linking to all of the package repositories that we
(directly or indirectly) manage, there are going to be many community
repositories that for various reasons we don't plan on linking to.
Furthemore, a page which lists all of the available repositories, what
they contain, etc. is still needed.
A page which lists all of the available repositories exists and we link
to it from the front page 'Contribute a Package' page in the
left-navigation menu. This landing page is new (last month), so I'm open
to any/all changes to it and its title to address your requirements:
http://opensolaris.org/os/package/
This is the destination landing page for the Contribute a Package item
(but we can call it Useful Package Repos or whatever). Please review the
page above in detail and send me the changes you'd like to make, so we
can improve it, it covers the 4 repos and links to details for
co-developers.
I assumed that the Package Manager would tell a person about additional
available repos of note for software that a user wants to install. The
technical documentation (also linked from the front page) appropriately
provides this information for /release /extra and /support.
However, as a user myself, I admit to finding out about lifewithsolaris
on a mailing list and would agree that if Package Manager can't yet
suggest to me alternate repos, we might improve the experience by adding
this information to a web page. But, I don't think we should regard web
pages as a real solution.
I'll take and implement any feedback on the web page, in trade for IPS
features, apologies if this is a duplicate, I don't watch pkg-discuss:
USE CASE: When I type 'Some Cool Thing' in Package Manager search and it
isn't found, please traverse the web for me. Show me the preferred
alternate repos, rerun the search against those repos, set new authority
for me if Package Manager finds a match, and confirm it with me before
completing the installation of new software. Bonus round: if it still
not found, ask to search my local partitions and, when found, show me a
form to submit the spec file so we can get it into the juice factory or
whatever. (yes, I'm a dreamer.)
This or something similar seems like a priority use case requirement for
Pkg Mgr, since we've always known there would be multiple pkg repos and
we need more apps, but we're probably, just not there yet.
So, let me put the question a different way. If one of the community
groups provides a page that lists all of the package repositories
available for each of the OpenSolaris distributions currently known
(Milax, SchilliX, Belenix, 2008.x etc.), would you be willing to add a
link to the front page to it?
In this case, please work on the software instead. I'm happy to improve
the current /os/package page to address all the feedback that comes out
of this thread so you can work on the Package Manager use cases.
Regards,
Michelle
Cheers,
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