Frank Allan wrote:
> So this makes the offline repository virtually unusable for SPARC until
> the elusive SPARC boot image arrives.
The offline repository support is an in-development feature like the
rest of the package system.
From the pkg(1) man page:
ATTRIBUTES
...
____________________________________________________________
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
| Availability | SUNWipkg |
| Interface Stability | None / Under Development |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
Reasonable efforts are made to attempt to maintain compatibility. But
it is implicitly assumed that depot server maintainers will stay up to
date for now.
> Surely you are not going to change the repository format with every
> build? I can understand upgrading it occasionally, but without the
No, and it does not. But it can and will change as project development
progresses.
...
> We need something for the pkg tools like the current situation with the
> lu packages on Solaris, where you can add the latest lu packages to an
> existing OS so you can upgrade to a new version.
The pkg(5) project is not yet at a sufficient level of stability to
permit this. In particular, project dependencies are sometimes tied to
specific packages delivered only in specific OS builds or newer. As
such, it is not yet possible to achieve this.
Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
