[indiana-discuss] /release and new kernels

[Stephen Hahn]

* Robert Milkowski <milek at task.gda.pl> [2008-12-11 12:45]:
> Hello Robert,
> 
> I tried again today and this time it worked :)
> 
> However the entire process is slightly too much complicated imho.
> 
> It would be much more user firendly if one could do something like:
> 
> # pkg set-autority -O https://pkg.sun.com/opensolaris/extras
> 
> This authority needs registering first. Please provide your user name
> and password and then accept the license terms.
> 
> login: ****
> password: ****
> 
> License ....
> ....
> ...
> 
> Accept/Deny: (Accept)
> 
> done!
> 
> 
> 
> And it will download, install all keys, etc. for user automatically.
> 
> 
> Eventually some repositories like the above one could be
> pre-configured and then user would need to do 'pkg authority register
> extras' and go thru the same questions as above.
> Both ways should also work from Package Manager too.

  Yep, enhancements like these are planned; the web application already
  has an API to allow programmatic retrieval.  For the CLI, we need to
  do

  http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=2960

  first.

  - Stephen

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