So, I'm a long time linux user who installed opensolaris when the binary of indiana was released, played around with it for a day or so, and then forgot about it until now. Decided to boot up the machine again, and immediately got horribly confused when trying to install/update packages. I see there is the "package manager" program (gui), but then from searching online i see there is a pkg-get utility. However, there seem to be different versions available - from sunfreeware.org and from blastwave.org, and I'm worried that the update process the sunfreeware pkg-get started doing (I killed it soon after starting) is completely separate from the update process that the package manager would do, or the blastwave.org pkg-get would do...
In short, what is going on with all these different repositories - are they mutually exclusive (the packages from sunfreeware's pkg-get were all SMC<package_name> and installed to /usr/local/; the package manager seems to be installing everywhere, not sure about the blastwave pkg-get) will using more than one clusterphunk my machine, etc? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
