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.
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