This is best discussed on pkg-discuss (I've BCCed install and website).
This came up last week:
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/pkg-discuss/2009-July/014893.html
But johansen got no response. Perhaps you could?
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 09:32:54AM -0700, Joseph Mocker wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I've had the problem where I cannot run a "pkg fix" to the
> pkg.opensolaris.org/release repository for about the last week. I've
> been trying to do a pkg fix as part of the workaround for bug #8409
> - http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=8409 So that I an
> installation fully up to date.
>
> Typically I see the error message
>
> pkg: Maximum number of network retries exceeded during download.
> Details follow:
> Transfer from 'http://ipkg.sfbay.sun.com/release' failed: Read error
> on tar stream. (happened 4 times)
Note that what you claim in the subject line (pkg.opensolaris.org) is
different than what's indicated here (ipkg.sfbay). The previous thread
showed a problem on poo.
> What's odd is I can do a pkg image-upgrade and it will download new
> versions of the updated packages (just won't install them because of
> bug 8409).
>
> Any ideas on where the problem is and when it will be fixed?
Thanks
Danek
