* 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 -- [email protected] http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
