[advocacy-discuss] Public repository

[Jim Walker]

Philip,

pkg-discuss at opensolaris.org is the right place for these questions.

They are working on a new /contrib repo, but I don't know when it
will be operational. Also mirrors do exist.

Cheers,
Jim

Philip Torchinsky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> sorry if I miss the announcement of publicly accessible repository, but 
> I share the awareness about adding more new OpenSolaris packages to the 
> repository. My friends and me need many of them - from GNU Find (locate, 
> updatedb) to the most recent SunStudioExpress, Inkscape and many others...
> 
> Do we have packages repository available for (general public)/(approved 
> registered users)/(somebody else) for uploading new packages there, and 
> if not, when we do plan to have it?
> 
> Do we plan currently to have any mirrors of the repository, or just two 
> repositories - for public uploads and the main one?
> 
> Philip