Yes, unfortunately catalogs aren't readable by default by anyone but the owner. This is a pkg(5) bug:
5603 server catalog permissions should be 644, not 600 Cheers, Jason Zhao wrote: > David: > > The crontab report rsync error, "no permission to the file catalog/catalog", > > It seems like I don't have permission to read the catalog/catalog file. > > # hostname > ipkg > > # whoami > xz201216 > > # pwd > /export/comay/sparc/pkg/repo/catalog > > # ls -l > total 141 > -rw-r--r-- 1 comay staff 71 Dec 4 23:58 attrs > -rw------- 1 comay staff 70398 Dec 4 23:58 catalog > > Please check and give me read permission. > > Thanks > Jason > David.Comay at Sun.COM wrote: >>> I would like to pull over the IPS repository for this test, would you >>> tell me how to set up a mirror >>> IPS SPARC repo from current one(http://ipkg.sfbay:29048)? At 2008.11 >>> release, I have set up a local >>> x86 repository, but I am not sure where the current SPARC repository >>> locates in ipkg.sfbay now. >>> >> You should be able to mirror using rsync(1) the following directories >> >> ipkg.sfbay:/export/comay/sparc/pkg/repo/file/ >> ipkg.sfbay:/export/comay/sparc/pkg/repo/pkg/ >> >> (again, apologies for our external community members here) >> >> Be sure to shutdown pkg.depotd(1M) before starting the rsync, and then >> you can restart it - it will automatically rebuild the search indices, >> etc. >> >> Note that these are up to date as of 3AM PST on December 3rd. >> >> Also, SUNWinstaladm-tools is not currently in the repository as we also >> need to get a SPARC SVR4 package for SUNWpython-lxml made available as >> it's a dependency. >> _______________________________________________ >> caiman-discuss mailing list >> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >> > > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss -- Shawn Walker