> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 05:34:40PM -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>>
>> > Thanks Dennis. Hmm, I wasn't even aware of blastwave. Maybe I should
>> > be using that for my Solaris 9 + Apache + mod_ssl setup. Just trying
>> > to avoid building stuff by hand so I can keep things up to date as
>> > automatically as possible.
>>
>> You could just google for "open source software for solaris" and see what
>> comes up. There are lots of ways to get up to date open source software on
>> Solaris ... the most painful being to just build it yourself. Don't go
>> there
>> unless you're paid by the hour and no one cares how long you take :-)
>>
>
> Yeah -- I had just used sunfreeware for so long that I hadn't bothered
> to look for an alternative in a looonngg time. :-)
>
> Next going to look and see if there's a tool to easily tell me that
> there's a new version of XX package from blastwave available --
> something like pca.
Install pca with :
/opt/csw/bin/pkg-get -i pca
But don't bother to use it looking for software updates. Just do :
/opt/csw/bin/pkg-get -c
or
/opt/csw/bin/pkg-get -c | grep -v Not | grep -v SAME
You will see why you would want to do that .. after you do it once.
Dennis
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