On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 01:39:00PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > >>Disable publishers you're not using, certainly. > > > >I think an option similar to the "search" of pointing to a repository on > >the command line would be nice. RFE? > > Something similar is already planned, but that's not really the issue here. > > In the past, the pkg(1)'s command was to simply continue on if a > refresh wasn't successful, but then some users indicated that was > not good default behaviour as it meant that if they did an > image-update, and the refresh failed, they may update to something > other than the newest bits they were expecting. > > Likewise, an operation might fail much later on because a source > that was needed for the operation was unavailable, and the refresh > check at the beginning would have spotted that. > > Long term, we'll have to work out some compromise that keeps both > sets of users happy. (The goal is to avoid a > property/policy/setting/whatever to control this if at all > possible.)
Not to be glib, but if you care about installing packages from these repositories, the solution is to debug why two of these depots failed to refresh. It looked like one was down (unreachable) and the other was returning an unknown authentication error. -j _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
