Re: [Pkgutil-users] Software stacks

[Dagobert M. <da...@op...>]

Hi Mark,

Am 28.07.2010 um 12:18 schrieb ma...@pr...:
> Having made myself even more familiar with the pkgutil code, let me  
> offer an apology.  I had failed to realise that you could do this:
>
> mirror=https://swrepo.mydomain.com/sw/current
> mirror=https://swrepo.mydomain.com/sw/stable
> mirror=https://swrepo.mydomain.com/sw/unstable

or
   mirror=https://swrepo.mydomain.com/sw/veritas35
   mirror=https://swrepo.mydomain.com/sw/oracle10g2
for different vendor versions. You would have one line per stack and
adjusting it would mean switch versions.

> ...all in the same pkgutil.conf file.
>
> This is what you were trying to explain to me, but I didn't latch  
> onto the fact that pkgutil could handle multiple catalogues.
>
> So this is great, and you're right, it does solve the software stack  
> problem.

Yep, that's what I meant :-)

> All this leaves is how we properly automate the generating of a  
> catalogue name without requiring the packages to be tampered with.   
> I think we can probably address this with a package map file, which  
> I'll start a new thread for.

Cool.


Best regards

   -- Dago