On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 10:49, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In the man page: > > > > -d device > > > > Install or copy a package from device. device can be a > > full path name to a directory or the identifiers for > > tape, floppy disk, or removable disk (for example, > > /var/tmp or /floppy/floppy_name). It can also be a dev- > > ice alias (for example, /floppy/floppy0) or a datastream > > created by pkgtrans (see pkgtrans(1)). device can also > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > be a URL pointing to a datastream created by pkgtrans. > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > This is missing on Solaris 10. Has the feature been added recently or is the > man page on S 10 outdated?
The feature has actually been there since one of the update releases of Solaris 9. You are correct that is is missing on the Solaris 10 man page so it probably means someone notices it wasn't documented and got it added post Solaris 10 shipping. > Is there an agreement that it would help to include some kind of "tsort" > capabilities (against pkg dependencies) into pkgadd so that pkgadd will > reorder the packges that are going to be installed? I don't see how anyone could disagree. Whats more patchadd has just recently gained this ability, ie it automatically applies patches in the correct order based on the patch metadata for dependencies etc. -- Darren J Moffat _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
