[ Reducing to just the external alias. ]

Frank Allan wrote:

> What I do *not* have is an x86 machine to install OpenSolaris and set
> up as a depot server.

Why do you need an x86 machine?  You should be able to do this on your
sparc box.

> Can I set publisher to be a network accessible filesystem and install
> packages that way? Or can I somehow just do a pkg install by pointing
> directly to the package?

Not yet.  It's a feature we intend to have, but we've got a handful of
steps that need to be taken before that's possible.

> Once I can get one machine installed with sufficient packages to be a
> depot server then I won't have this problem, but right now the only
> way I can get OpenSolaris on sparc is using the image from
> http://alexeremin.blogspot.com/2009/11/opensolaris-sparc-snv125-livecd.html

Oh, are you missing packages, then?  If so, which ones?

Danek

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