[OmniOS-discuss] Bug in pkg/server on OmniOS when the publisher name contains a dash

[Eric Sproul]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Volker A. Brandt <vab at bb-c.de> wrote:
>> wonder if this bug was around a while, and that's why it's
>> "ms.omniti.com" instead of "omniti-ms", for example?
>
> Sounds likely.  I wouldn't know. :-)

I would know, as I was the one that chose it when I was at OmniTI.  :)

The various OmniTI "extra" publishers (those other than omnios) use
the pseudo-domain-name style, simply for the high degree of confidence
that it is globally unique.  I was unaware of the issue with dashes in
publisher names, but IIRC way back at the beginning (circa 2011) when
we started working on what would become OmniOS, I'm pretty sure there
was an "omni-os" publisher configured.  Perhaps the issue was
introduced in a later revision (one that's in the OI fork) but only
fixed after the last time OI synced their tree.

> Going forward, what is the likelihood of OmniOS adopting a more recent
> version of the Oracle IPS gate?  I don't really think I can offer much
> help (ENOTIME, ENOCLUE, etc.) but IMHO it would be well worth while if
> it fixes that bug.

As I understand it (someone please correct me if I'm wrong), we cannot
use Oracle's pkg-gate unmodified, as it has dependencies on closed
bits in Solaris for certain features.  Those need to be
stripped/modified for non-Solaris use, which is what OI has been
maintaining in their fork, thanks mostly to the hard work of Andrzej
Szeszo.  Anyone interested in helping refresh
https://github.com/OpenIndiana/pkg5 from Oracle's gate would benefit
both communities.

Eric