Jacob Becker wrote: > I'm setting up a new server that doesn't have internet access for the time > being. What I was trying to do was use pkgrecv to download the package from > pkg.opensolaris.org. It appears that step was successful. However when I go > to transfer the file to the new server I can't install it. Here's the > sequence of steps I'm using. > > (as root user) > pkgrecv -s http://pkg.opensolaris.org pkg:/SUNWhea at > 0.5.11,5.11-0.98:20080916T185121Z > > > which downloads a directory called SUNWhea I then scp this directory to the > other server and run the following: > > pkgadd -d /tmp/ SUNWhea > pkgadd: ERROR: no packages were found in </tmp> > > Am I missing a step in here? Or is there a better way to do this, well other > than obviously allowing this server access to the internet.
pkgrecv is used for re-publishing packages to a server. pkg(5) does not currently have an on-disk package format. This means you cannot install packages directly from disk -- they must always be installed from a pkg.depotd server. This will change at some point in the future, but has not yet been implemented. -- Shawn Walker
