Hi everyone,
This is a question that has been bugging us since a long time now and
needs an answer.
Can we download *.pkg files from an IPS repository?
This is absolutely necassary especially for university students like
us where bandwidth is a major problem. We don't have resources to
setup an
Angad,
I am not too sure but this should be the one:
You should set the repo server to opensolaris.org and you can download
the pkgs.
On the command line set:
pkg set-authority=http://opensolaris.org opensolaris.org
then you can use other pkg commands to install pkgs/distros.
Best Regards,
M
Sorry! Pasted the wrong command.
pkg set-authority -O http://pkg.opensolaris.org:80/ opensolaris.org
--bmk
Madhan Kumar Balasubramanian wrote:
> Angad,
>
> I am not too sure but this should be the one:
>
> You should set the repo server to opensolaris.org and you can download
> the pkgs.
>
> O
Hi Madhan,
Installing packages using the "pkg install" command is absolutely fine.
The problem here is to be download and archive the *.pkg (or whichever
other format IPS uses) for later use (so that later I don't have to
download the package again for installing and can install it from my
local
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Angad Singh wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> This is a question that has been bugging us since a long time now and
> needs an answer.
>
> Can we download *.pkg files from an IPS repository?
>
No. There is no concept of on the filesystem package in IPS.
A plan file as to
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 7:35 PM, S h i v wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Angad Singh wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> This is a question that has been bugging us since a long time now and
>> needs an answer.
>>
>> Can we download *.pkg files from an IPS repository?
>>
>
> No. There is no c
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 07:41:25PM +0530, Moinak Ghosh wrote:
>As far as I understand actually the packages can be downloaded via
>pkgrecv in a transaction format and then pushed into a local repository
>server. Subsequently the local repository filesystem tree can be shipped
>on a
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Venky wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 07:41:25PM +0530, Moinak Ghosh wrote:
>>As far as I understand actually the packages can be downloaded via
>>pkgrecv in a transaction format and then pushed into a local repository
>>server. Subsequently the local
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 08:41:10PM +0530, Sriram Narayanan wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Venky wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 07:41:25PM +0530, Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> >>As far as I understand actually the packages can be downloaded via
> >>pkgrecv in a transaction format and
Thanks for the replies. Creating a local DVD repository is close to a
solution, but not the desirable solution. If its not already there
this is a very essential feature which IMHO should be there. The
ability to "export" a package from the repository (local or remote)
into a redistributable / offl
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Angad Singh wrote:
> Thanks for the replies. Creating a local DVD repository is close to a
> solution, but not the desirable solution. If its not already there
> this is a very essential feature which IMHO should be there. The
> ability to "export" a package from t
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