> On Wednesday 26 August 2009 09:26:17 am Thorsten Heit wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > could adventurous souls please try the ips repository
> > > at http://solaris.bionicmutton.org:10001 and report
> > > back?
> > > It contains the KDE 4.3 packages.
> >
> > I'd like to test it, but unfortunately our company's firewall blocks 
access
> > to that port :-(
> 
> But not 10000? Or are you one of the folks that can only do http and 
https? I 
> can move -- or add -- an IPS depot server onto any non-privileged port, 
for a 
> while at least.

Unfortunately only access HTTP(S) and perhaps a few other "standard" ports 
accessible by HTTP such as 8080, but I'm not sure. The rest is blocked.


> IPS doesn't have an on-disk format. All we can do is ship around 
complete IPS 
> depot images, which are gigantic; I *could* tar one up, but would prefer 
not 
> to because then you'll be running your own local depotd and unable to 
get 
> updates.
> 
> The PKGS/ are SysV style packages for Solaris10 and some older Nevada 
> versions.

Ok, got it. Thanks for clarifying.


On the other hand, I recently downloaded the Korona ISO image. I assume 
there's no easy way to install KDE from that image onto my machine?


Regards

Thorsten

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