On Wed, 14 May 2008, Danek Duvall wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:29:53PM -0700, Paul B. Henson wrote: > > > Is there a quick and easy way to create a local mirror of the openSolaris > > package repository? > > Not at the moment, now, but the need is obvious, and we're working on it.
Okay then, is there a slow and hard way ;)? > They can only be installed from a repo, but you can run a depot server > anywhere and point to it. So it sounds like packages must be installed via a repository server, but getting the actual raw bits on disk can be done via whatever protocol mechanism is available? Maybe you guys could temporarily set up an rsync server just to move the bits around pending implementation of a specific mirroring protocol :). Thanks... -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | henson at csupomona.edu California State Polytechnic University | Pomona CA 91768
