[advocacy-discuss] Software 'wish list'!

[Laurent Blume]

Shawn Walker a écrit :
> 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 ...

They are, but again, anything needing network access isn't much useful 
when you don't have network access.

So, doing that from files on a CD is needed. And it has to be individual 
packages. Duplicating a whole repository when only a few packages need 
to be upgraded is a waste of time, even more when you have to do this 
for several isolated systems and small network segments.

And there's the obvious case pointed out by HeCSa: what if you need to 
get an upgrade to have that network connectivity in the first place?
Copying files by hand, add_drv and such, it doesn't make IPS look so 
modern :-)

Since it's is all new and great, it should rightly take those 
limitations into account from the start. I've got a feeling that "the 
network is the computer" has turned into "the computer won't work 
without a network" :-)

Laurent