[advocacy-discuss] Software 'wish list'!

[Shawn Walker]

On Jun 21, 2009, at 12:10 AM, Laurent Blume wrote:
> Shawn Walker a écrit :
>> Which means nothing :)
>> The on-disk format should be in the 2010.02 release.
>
> Cool, that's something I had missed, thanks for the heads up :-)

Obviously, it should be in a development build sometime before then,  
but I can't say when yet.

>> I don't think it is much of a stretch to place files into a  
>> repository in a native package format where they are easily  
>> updated.  The significant advantage for the ISVs are access control  
>> and significantly less bandwidth usage than a traditional  
>> distribution model.
>
> Historically, Solaris has been used in many secure environments.  
> I've been working in one of those. With no network access and  
> restrictions on the media you can use there, yes, it becomes a pain.  
> It's simply impossible to install a repository in each secure  
> network: the cost would be too high.
> I know it's a particular case, and maybe Sun doesn't care about  
> those customers anymore (their salespeople sure didn't look like  
> they cared much...). But its' a case where IPS, right now, fails.


In the future, the client will support access to a repository from the  
filesystem.  Which means all you need to provide repository access is  
an nfs mount :)  The publication tools already support this.

I think you'll agree nfs mounts are pretty common in UNIX server  
environments ...

Cheers,
-- 
Shawn Walker