> I'm uncertain as to what you mean by "mirror update > server mechanism". We do support content mirrors (that is, mirrors of > the package data itself). However, no individuals, to my knowledge, > have opted to provide public mirrors (outside of china): > > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/pkg/Mirroring/
Ok, I'll try that. Unfortunately, the only servers I have control over have too little bandwidth for public use, and I expect the amount of paperwork required to officialize a mirror within my organization would be overwhelming. It is surprising that no public institution has devoted resources to one, since they have no problem supporting even the most obscure Linux distro. > The reason you can't use the LiveCDs to upgrade is > because it doesn't contain any packages. The LiveCD is literally the > 'installed' image of a 2009.06 system, and essentially just gets copied to > a blank filesystem. Understood. > At this time, pkg(5) does not support using file-based sources for > packaging operations. An on-disk format will very > likely be implemented later this year. > > However, I can tell you that there are plans to > release an ISO image of the 2009.06 repository soon so that you can run a > local depot server and use that as a mirror. This ISO will probably go a long way toward fixing the current distribution infrastructure weaknesses, and if it comes with an embedded IPS server startup script, I think it would also remove the necessity for an on-disk format. Or maybe pkg itself could have a local-update mode which would start a temporary IPS server to read from a disk repo. Thanks for the clarification. I will be patient. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
