On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 10:37 -0700, Miten Mehta wrote: > Hi, > > I find it easy to use work connection to download files and then usb then to > my laptop at home. Work has better bandwidth. is there a way we can in open > solaris download packages from its repository bases upon current os version. > ex. eclipse is about 311MB. I better download it at work and then get in > installed. > > Regards, > > Miten.
Am afraid no. PackageManager will install the package as soon as it is done downloading. IPS, the packaging system on opensolaris needs to have a repository running on your machine to achieve what you intend to do. More details about IPS and how it works can be found here[1] and here[2]. Cheers, Partha [1] - http://opensolaris.org/os/project/pkg/ [2] - http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/2009.06/IMGPACKAGESYS/ -- Parthasarathi Susarla <parthasarathi.susarla at sun.com> Sun Microsystems India
