pkg
TODO
During the prototype phase, this is merely a list of items not fully
discussed, written up or implemented.
- Preferred publisher fallback
- a discussion of catalogs, comparisons between, and
operations on
- per-package publisher association
- Catalog update mechanism
- event oriented
- digested
- Freeze/constraint flow
- statement
- back tracking
- Snapshot/revert safety
- Image/substrate relationship
- Image operational history
- Conventions for automated repository discovery
- Depot management
- store forever and demote from catalog
- conserve disk space
- client as depot?
- Compatibility options
- understand SysV as fixed version:timestamp packages
from a legacy publisher?
- Versioned formats (event, full) for catalog
- Versioned format for manifest
- Versioned format for marshalled transactions ("new package
format")
- Practices around REST and versions (entry points or data?)
3. Data analysis
- continued examination of version and patch history of S9 and
S10 (S8?)
- write up worked examples (e.g. telnet on both sides
of private kernel API change)
4. Coding
- Server split to transaction server and plain old HTTP server
sides
- SSH tunnel support in pkgsend(1)