Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
Fair enough.
Follow-up question: What is the definition of "installable" as far as it
relates to "list-worthy"?
$ pkg list -avf SUNWlibatk
FMRI STATE
UFOXI
pkg://joanmarie.homeunix.org/[email protected],5.11-0.127.1:20091121T050611Z
installed u----
pkg://localhost/[email protected],5.11-0.127:20091203T195739Z known
-----
pkg://localhost/[email protected],5.11-0.127.1:20091203T231157Z known
u----
pkg://opensolaris.org/[email protected],5.11-0.128:20091125T030327Z known
u----
pkg://opensolaris.org/[email protected],5.11-0.127:20091111T090711Z known
u----
[...]
The third item doesn't show up in PM or with pkg list -a. It is
installable however without my making any changes whatsoever. I just did
so via Web Install:
$ pkg list -a SUNWlibatk
NAME (PUBLISHER) VERSION STATE UFOXI
SUNWlibatk (localhost) 0.5.11-0.127.1 installed u----
So here's where things get fun. First, the man page definitions of the
behaviour:
With -a, list installed packages and the newest version of
packages that are not installed and are available for
installation; without -a, list only installed packages.
Now the details (a package is not listed if):
1) it is for a variant that does not apply to the image (think SPARC
packages on i386 systems and vice-versa, zone packages, etc.)
2) it is not installed, and is simply the older name of a package
already installed (think SUNWvim getting renamed to vim, and you have
vim installed, therefore no reason to list SUNWvim) and it is part of an
installed incorporation (such as entire)
3) it is not installed, and is the newer name of an installed package
(you have SUNWvim installed, which has been renamed to 'vim' in a newer
version)
4) it is another version of a package that is already installed, because
only a "install -nv" or "image-update -nv" knows what version *can* be
installed. For example, if you have 1.0 installed, and all other
versions are 0.9, those aren't "installable" since we don't support
downgrade, and even if they were, they're probably not interesting to
most users by default. Likewise, if you have sunw...@127 installed,
sunw...@128 isn't interesting to you normally because it is part of the
entire incorporation and so can't be installed without an image-update.
There are probably some other bits I forgot, but that's the main brunt
of the filtering logic.
Essentially, pkg list -a really means "list installed + not_installed
(latest available)" and the GUI does this by default as well.
Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
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