You can also check out the script I put together some time ago. It was 
still working last time I checked which was about a month ago.

http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=69493&tstart=0

Regards,

Andrzej

Stephen Hahn wrote:
> * Jonathan Edwards <[email protected]> [2009-01-13 22:25]:
>> On Jan 13, 2009, at 8:28 AM, Dave Miner wrote:
>>
>>>> so my actual question is, where can i pull packages so i can import  
>>>> them into the repository using "pkgsend send SUNW..."?
>>>>
>>> See http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/pkg/Mirroring/.  If you're
>>> looking to mirror only the /release repository, you may need  
>>> assistance
>>> from the IPS team.  Building a repository by importing the original  
>>> SVR4
>>> packages is a complex process which isn't well-documented, and not all
>>> of the content is easy to collect - you'd have to build some things  
>>> from
>>> source at present.
>> ok .. moving to pkg-discuss and attempting to help distill the  
>> question a bit more .. here's a common scenario i'm encountering:
>>
>> (1) Customer installs an opensolaris image from a CD or USB stick in a  
>> secure data center (only local network access is available.)
>> (2) Customer would like some packages from the release repository, but  
>> opening network access for the server in question involves complicated  
>> network change processes and acts of God.
>>
>> Question:
>> - What would be the best/fastest method to get package updates and  
>> other packages from the release repository to this server with limited  
>> network access assuming that another server (not necessarily  
>> opensolaris) could be swung or proxied to connect to the release  
>> repository?
> 
>   If you can run an HTTP proxy, you're done--pkg(1) obeys the http_proxy
>   environment variable convention.  If pkg(1) or packagemanager fails in
>   this mode, it's a bug (but make sure your proxy is working properly
>   first...).  The current protocol uses GET and POST, so it's not
>   in any way exceptional in terms of proxy configuration.
> 
>   If an HTTP proxy is not available, you need to wait for the next
>   media product, which is a single-build snapshot of a repository as a
>   collection of DVD images.  We haven't started building these
>   automatically yet, but it's on the list of things to do.  You can then
>   run a depot inside the organization's private network, after copying
>   the DVDs' contents to a filesystem.
> 
>   - Stephen
> 
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