[indiana-discuss] /release and new kernels

[Robert Milkowski]

Hello Stephen,

Thursday, December 11, 2008, 7:57:37 PM, you wrote:

SH> * 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.

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

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

SH>   first.

Suuper! I really like the direction most of the things are going to...

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 Robert Milkowski                            mailto:milek at task.gda.pl
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