Robert Milkowski wrote:
Shawn Walker wrote:
integrated as opposed to providing other tools to accomplish the same
task.
Shawn - after having all that discussion I was thinking, are you
proposing actually something like:
cat pseudo_code_pkgnodeps.sh
pkgrecive $1 | grep -v "^depend " | pkgsend -n $package--nodeps
pkg install $package--nodeps
More like:
pkgrecv -s <src_repo> -d <dest_repo> --no-deps $1
pkg install pkg://my_publisher/$1
If yes why not to implement it as a feature of pkg?
Because there is a high cost in doing so and it doesn't belong there.
Just as *NIX systems often have separate tools that can be combined to
perform jobs in efficient useful ways (think awk, grep, sed, etc.), the
pkg(5) commands also are each suited to a different task. pkgrecv /
pkgsend are for publication, pkg for managing images, pkg.depotd for
serving packages, etc.
Right now it would be a manual process and for any sysadmin not familiar
with package building with ips it would be utterly frustrating to do it
at 3am because of some production issue needed to be fixed now, but once
above would be implemented and hidden from a user then that would be
more than fine.
For some reason the 3am arguments remind me of semi-recent USA political
campaigns ;)
I believe this particular issue should be solved through a combination
of tools and documentation. As many of you have said repeatedly "it's a
rare occurrence" ;)
Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
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