Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> I did spend about an hour on IPS packaging today, along with minor bits of 
> fiddling around with KDEtoys and utils (which now build with reduced deps on 
> nv104 as well). My initial response to IPS is: yes, you've managed to make 
> the 
> packaging network aware. Shame it's slow, has an unwieldy syntax, is counter-
> intuitive when it comes to alternative sources of packages and is very 
> unsupportive of migrating SysV packages to IPS.
>
> In short, it's not very positive. But we shall persevere, or at least I will 
> ask Joep again about it. 
>
> In comments on my blog I was pointed to pkgsend, which does exist on OSOL 
> 2008.11, but the "send" command which is supposed to import and process SysV 
> packages doesn't exist. 
What happens with ?import?? It works fine for me, as far as I know the 
only difference is that with import you have to open and close the 
transaction manually.

eval `pkgsend -s http://server:port open package.pkg`
pkgsend -s http://server:port import package.pkg
pkgsend -s http://server:port close


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