On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2013/10/28 Peter Bonivart <[email protected]>: > > Option -O is used all over unfortunately. > > Is it more "-O happens to be used" or "-O must be used by design"?
>From taking a quick look at the code section where catalogs are fetched it seems to be a case of "download to catalog.tmp, check if ok, if so rename to catalog, otherwise we still have the old catalog". I guess one could do it the other way around, rename current catalog first, download without -O, check and rename back if not successful. It's also used to download to another location than current work dir, so -O sets an absolute path like "/var/opt/csw/pkgutil/catalog....". That could be worked around by changing current work dir.
