On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 02:00, Michael Schloh von Bennewitz wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 08, 2004, David M. Fetter wrote:
> > Hello, all.  I wrote a quick and easy step-by-step document on how to 
> > bootstrap openpkg and then proceed with installing a slew of packages 
> > using openpkg-tool.  I also wrote a script that will automate that 
> > process as if it wasn't slick enough already.  In any case the link to 
> > my doc is http://www.fetterconsulting.com/index.php?name=opkginst.  The 
> > script I wrote is linked within the document.  Hope this helps some out.
> >
> Nice work, David. I see that your script makes no assumptions and rather
> installs nearly all of the packages in the release (about 450). I guess that
> not installing what you call 'redundant' packages keeps conflicts away.
> You script has another group of exclusions though, and here I wonder what
> you mean by 'problematic' packages (in the script's comment)?
Thanks.  The problematic packages are software which failed to rebuild
on solaris for us and in our environment we deemed unnecessary therefore
not worth taking the time to debug and fix.

-- 
David M. Fetter - UNIX Systems Administrator
Portland State University - www.oit.pdx.edu

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