On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 06:31:02AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > Well, first off, I don't think my Solaris 7 boxes came with anything > > in /usr/local/pkg, or maybe I misunderstand. I used sunfreeware.com > > You misunderstand. > > # man pkgadd > # man pkginfo > > that should get you started.
I may not be an old-hand Solaris admin, but I *did* run into those commands pretty quickly upon downloading any precompiled packages. It still didn't help with the godawful tangled mess /usr/local became, and still didn't address the other issues that led me to using stow. I suppose the pkg stuff does dependencies, but it's still a far cry from dpkg as best I can tell (unless someone has clear documentation on making my own pkg files, rebuilding existing packages from source, etc). -- Mike Renfro / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
