* Shawn Walker <[email protected]> [2010-05-19 15:11]:
> On 05/19/10 04:57 PM, Stephen Hahn wrote:
> >* Shawn Walker<[email protected]>  [2010-05-19 14:42]:
> >>On 05/18/10 06:00 PM, Stephen Hahn wrote:
> >>>* Shawn Walker<[email protected]>   [2010-05-18 15:43]:
> >>...
> >>>>Could you be more explicit about what you mean by this?  I don't
> >>>>quite connect this to section 5.1's text.
> >>>
> >>>   I was hoping that
> >>>
> >>>   pkg install -g http://example.com/foo.p5p
> >>>
> >>>   would work.
> >>
> >>To clearly set expectations, are you expecting:
> >>
> >>   pkg install<uri_to>/foo.p5p
> >>
> >>...to automatically attempt to install any packages named within?
> >>
> >>While:
> >>
> >>   pkg install -g<uri_to>/foo.p5p
> >>
> >>...simply uses foo.p5p as a source of package data and requires that
> >>you specify package(s) to install?
> >
> >   Actually, I just want to know what
> >
> >   # pkg install -g<uri_to>/foo.p5p
> >
> >   does by default?
> 
> I had assumed it would do the same thing we do now when you don't
> provide a package FMRI:
> 
> $ pkg install -g <uri_to>/foo.p5p
> pkg install: at least one package name required
> Try `pkg --help or -?' for more information.

  Okay.  Then I think your two expected cases above are correct.

> >   As a related question, how do I see the contents of
> >   a .p5p file from the command line.  (Zero points for "cat foo.p5p"...)
> 
> What about 'bobcat foo.p5p'? :)
> 
> If you're speaking of the list of packages in the archive, this is
> covered in section 5.4, although I had originally required the -g
> option there.  If I apply the input analysis process you suggested
> earlier, that would be simplified instead to:
> 
>   $ pkg list <uri_or_path_to>/foo.p5p
>   NAME (PUBLISHER)  VERSION         STATE      UFOXI
>   foo               1.0-0.133       known      -----
>   ...
> 
>   $ pkg info <uri_or_path_to>/foo.p5p
>             Name: package/pkg
>   ...

  Sounds good.

  - Stephen

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