Bob Doolittle wrote:
Hi,
I have some packages I obtain from publically-accessible repositories,
and some that require me to bring up a VPN tunnel through my corporate
firewall to obtain (punchin :) ).
I find that if I add all the repositories to my publisher list, I can't
do image-update.
Is there an easy way I can deal with this, other than constantly having
to add and delete publishers from my list?
I wish that image-update would have a way to update from the
repositories it can access, without getting a fatal error when one of
its publishers is unreachable.
Can the -f option help here? The pkg man page says it skips "safety
checks" but doesn't define what those checks actually are (at least not
in the same terms)... I'd imagine it's talking about dependency checking
or perhaps platform compatibility?
If this isn't a current capability, is it something we're planning to add?
In the future, though there isn't an RFE logged yet, we plan on
integrating with NWAM and allowing a user to define what publishers are
enabled/disabled and proxy settings based on the NWAM profile, selected
repositories, etc. However, that requires some support in NWAM that
doesn't exist yet (at least in optimal form).
Part of this is also waiting on the forthcoming putback of the new
transport system.
As Brock said, it's best just to disable/enable publishers for now.
--
Shawn Walker
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