On Dec 1, 2007 12:11 AM, Nam Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: > > On Nov 30, 2007 11:06 PM, Nam Tuan Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>> As soon as we have a fix for this and other issues, > >>> we'll push > >>> updated packages to pkg.opensolaris.org and you'll be > >>> able to > >>> update your already installed bits. > >>> > >> Is the fix for this pkgadd available now? If so, I would also like to see > >> the ISO replaced immediately with just this one fix alone because it is > >> causing so much disappointment and waste of productivity for a lot of > >> people. What the use of a system for developers that you could not add > >> development tools? > >> > >> > > > > 1) Yes, it is available > > > Could you point me to instruction to get it and install from > http://pkg.opensolaris.org ?
See below. > > 2) That is not true. You can install a tarball image of the studio > > tools so you don't need pkgadd to have them > > > Developers usually need to use or try a lot more tools than just what > are available in the studio tools package. Not in my personal experience. Almost all of the tools I *need* are included already or are part of Sun Studio. > > 3) pkgadd is for sys5 (svr4?) old style packages not IPS packages, you > > can install new packages right now with "pkg install X" you don't need > > pkgadd for that. This means, for example, that you can install gcc > > from pkg.opensolaris.org. > > > Stuffs I really needs are from http://www.blastwave.org/ which are > installed through pkgadd > There is a piece very essential for working from home, IPSEC (punchctl), > is only installable with pkgadd. > > I don't understand the justification of not updating the ISO for a > single fix. It would just waste time and trust from a lot of people. > You cannot ignore pkgadd is still being used everywhere. I'm not the one in control of that, but there isn't a need to update the iso. At this point, generating an iso is not an automated process, it isn't as simple as you paint it to be, at least not at the moment. That's the justification. Resources spent on generating a new iso when it isn't necessary at the moment are better spent on getting other things going. I think in the future they will have an easier way to do so. In the meantime, you can update your existing indiana installation and get the fixed version pkgadd. The instructions were posted on indiana-discuss about two weeks or so ago: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2007-November/003777.html -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
