[arc-discuss] Discussion requested for a new ARC Policy on "Expectation Taxonomy and Repository Requirements"

[John Plocher]

Ceri Davies wrote:
> Currently, I can get a Solaris 10 DVD and install everything on it.  I
> can then do the same thing at any later point and get a system that
> looks exactly the same.  I *must* be able to do that with Solaris Next


On the surface, this seems "easy".

There needs to be a way to tag a set of pkgs in a repo with a label,
much the way one tags a release in cvs or hg, or build a distro out
of a list of versioned packages.

Conceptually:

    repo --createtag "SolarisNext.RC0" < ./list-of-versioned-packages

followed by

    pkg install --tag "Solaris Next RC0"
       ... grunge grunge ...

or maybe even

    distrocreator --makeiso SolarisNext.RC0.iso --recipe ./list-of-versioned-packages


   -John