cc'ing pkg-discuss Justin Ewing wrote: > Is there a blessed alternative to pkg.opensolaris.org that packages can be > retrieved from? > > I am new to the OS and have installed from the 05.2008 ISO image (build 86). > When following the directions posted for updating the system to the > OpenSolaris Development Build the first set of steps says to perform a pkg > refresh, etc, etc. The problem is this times out... and has done so at least > 5 times in the last 2 hours. > pkg refresh times out? I don't think we've seen that happen before. Could you please include the output of 'pkg version'?
Thanks, Brock > I have already set PKG_CLIENT_TIMEOUT=120... this hasn't helped... other than > I get to sit and stare at the screen longer before I see a timeout message. > > I have gone through many messages in the forums and tried everything from > simple reboots to modifying my MTU and nothing has helped. The link between > my office and the internet is a 3MB burstable DSL connection and I was able > to download the ISO images for OpenSolaris, Solaris 10 (2GB), and Fedora Core > (3.9GB) to my new 05.2008 machine in less than 4 hours total so I know speed > on my end isn't an issue. Is the solution really to wait until 0300 to do > any work? > > Any help would be great... I have a bunch of testing I would like to start > doing but this kind of stops that. > > Thanks > > Justin > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss >
