Shawn Walker wrote: > Dave Miner wrote: >> I think I would direct the effort towards filing bugs to get Package >> Manager to be aware of its environment and behave appropriately. We do >> have legitimate cases of installing packages in the live CD environment, >> and would certainly like users to be able to at least search and browse >> the package repositories from that environment in order to be able to >> ascertain that OpenSolaris has the software they want and get to know >> the Package Manager a bit. > > These problems will apply to the cli client as well as the gui. > > I can easily see adding an option to disable local search indexing to > help here. >
"pkg install" and uninstall already have --no-index. We need to instruct people to use it when installing things on the CD environment, of course. Dave
