Hey Bart! Thanks for the reply. Comments mainly at the foot...
> We should add a -v option like pkg list has, perhaps. In any case, > pkg list -av SUNWts reports: Possibly; but the RFE level is somewhere near "nit". > : [EMAIL PROTECTED]; pkg list -av SUNWts > FMRI STATE > UFIX > pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED],5.11-0.86:20080426T180521Z known > ---- > pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED],5.11-0.86:20080422T223257Z known > u--- > pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED],5.11-0.79:20080205T170331Z known > u--- > pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED],5.11-0.75:20071114T203942Z known > u--- > : [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > > There are indeed two versions of the build 86 pkg; we decided not > to delete the first version (which was part of release candidate 2). Absolutely fair. > In the future, republication will be more incremental, and only packages > with real changes will get multiple versions. Equally reasonable. Playing devil's advocate, I tried to install an earlier version from the repository, and came unstuck; and I think that I smell a rat... If I try to pkg install the latest version of SUNWts .86 by specifying its full FMRI, it installs fine. If I try to install the previous datestamped version of .86 by specifying its full FMRI, it installs fine. If I try to pkg install an earlier version (.79 or .75) by specifying its full FMRI, I get a python traceback which ends in the text: NameError: could not retrieve manifest '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' from 'http://pkg.opensolaris.org:80' So I suspect that when I install successfully either of the .86 versions, only the current/latest one is actually installed (and not the earlier-datestamped version when I specify its full FMRI); and when I try to install a version prior to .86, it tries to install the .86 version, but somehow the FMRI gets munged from containing a "," to its ASCII "%2C", which provokes a barf. Obv pkg is largely aimed at maintaining the latest versions of packages, but for regression testing previous ones need to be available (as they are; just I can't get ahold of any ;-) ). Obv also, this is a singleton case, and may not in the slightest reflect on other packages (TX being an awkward sausage at the best of times ;-) ). Thoughts? Thanks and regards... Sean. _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
