Hi Kunal, * kunal ghosh (kunal.t2 at gmail.com) wrote: > Thanks glen, > i will be starting my work on the caiman-constructor's GUI today, i > was wondering how would i go about accessing the package-repositories > just to get the name of the package and some package information and > possible get the "package information only" from other sources like > ubuntu's repositories the way aptitude package manager does it , > because i guess the Ubuntu community is the largest right now and has > most number of indexed packages.
I apologize for the delay in a response. I was on vacation last week and pretty busy this week. The package repository is available at: http://pkg.opensolaris.org/release You can access it via a web browser. There's a drop down box where you can pick the release you want to look at packages for (2008.11 is what I'd suggest) and then a browse button that will show you the package names with links to their manifest. As for pulling information about packages in other repositories like Ubuntu, I don't know how you would do that on an OpenSolaris system (or even why you would want to) other than visiting http://packages.ubuntu.com. Cheers, Glenn
