2008/7/13 Sebastien Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> As David just announced the availability of build 93, I tried to do an
> image-update (using the instructions of course).  Since the last time I
> did this, however, I added an authority and three package from that
> authority.  This authority happens to be not reachable from my network
> at the moment (which happens a lot since it's only reachable when I'm
> connected to a VPN).  This results in image-update to refuse to update
> any packages at all.
>
> Specifically:
>
> seb:~$ pfexec pkg authority
> AUTHORITY                           URL
> sunfreeware                         http://pkg.sunfreeware.com:9000/
> righthook.east.sun.com              http://righthook.east.sun.com:10000/
> opensolaris.org (preferred)         http://pkg.opensolaris.org:80/
>
> When I try image update, I get:
>
> seb:~$ pfexec pkg -R /mnt image-update
> pkg: 2/3 catalogs successfully updated:
>    righthook.east.sun.com: node name or service name not known
>
> I don't think that this behavior is quite right.  Should there be a way
> to say "image update everything from authority A, and ignore the others
> for now"?  Or perhaps, "update everything that you can, but don't abort
> if some authorities are unreachable".  Would such proposed behavior be
> fundamentally acceptable?

Looks very similar to bug 1331 to me:

1331 installing a known package when authority is not available causes traceback
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=1331

Except you're not getting a traceback. Either way, this is probably
behaviour we need to define.

-- 
Shawn Walker
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