On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 10:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > * Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060104 14:38]: > > On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 13:34, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > We would need a few simple extensions to pkgadd to increase the > > > usability..... > > > > Which are ? > > Support for gziped or bzip2ed packages!
We do, kind of, support that already. The packages on the Solaris install media are compressed. What we don't support and we really need to is compress stream pacakges. > > It can already download packages over http or https (with support for > > proxies specified in the environment or as arguments) , it seems a lot > > of people don't know this. > > pkgadd downloads the package from the specified URL, but can not > continue, since the package is compressed. Though it is possible to > install, since pkgadd tells me where i find the downloaded packages. So if the package wasn't compress it would have worked. Darren J Moffat _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
