The significance of the shorthand name of the publisher is new to me. >From Shawn's email it sounds like the shorthand publisher alias is stored as part of the persistent package database, it's not just a shorthand for the URL.
Is my understanding right? Was that the intended behavior? Has anyone clearly explained all the ramifications of this? I'm not sure Shawn's email made it completely clear to me. If we have a good explanation could it be added to the man page? I'm thinking mostly about the side-effects of changing publishers for packages that are already installed. Specifically for the packages in "entire". Also people have been bitten by moving between 'dev' and 'release' and also moving between different staging servers inside Sun. --chris Shawn Walker wrote: > Martin Bochnig wrote: >> #4.) pfexec pkg set-publisher -P -O http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev dev >> >> #5.) pfexec pkg unset-publisher opensolaris.org >> >> #6.) pfexec pkg refresh >> >> #7.) pfexec pkg install entire >> >> #8.) pfexec pkg install redistributable > > The steps above are not correct. Here's why: > > A new publisher should not be added, instead the existing publisher's > repository should be changed. The pkg refresh isn't necessary as > install will automatically refresh if needed. The install entire isn't > necessary as that is already installed. > > These are the correct steps: > > pfexec pkg set-publisher -O http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev > opensolaris.org > > pfexec pkg install redistributable > > Cheers, _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
