Harry Putnam writes:
> what does an `authority' designation look like (the URL).
Here are two:
http://pkg.opensolaris.org/
http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/
> Where is that set if not command line (pkg -a AUTH)?
One comes with the system as normally installed.
> I did not find info about where to find any configuration files for
> pkg.
There aren't any. Should there be?
> Also was not at all clear (to me) how to add a new addon authority.
> I mean in a configuration... not from command line. I did see the
> `-a' flag but no real description of what the URL would consist of.
You do it from the command line. I assume by "in a configuration,"
you mean that you _want_ to edit a file. It doesn't work that way.
> For example, I'm running opensol-11 installed from the official CD.
> Whatever authority it sets up, doesn't know anything about the pkg
> `lynx'.
>
>
> Although I saw on google that it is available in a SUN pkg somewhere.
>
> How would I tell pkg how to find that and install it.
> `pkg search -r lynx' doesn't find it.
I think "lynx" integrated as of build 106, which means that it's not
yet on the stable branch. You can pick it up by moving to the "dev"
branch -- by making your authority be this:
http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/
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