Re: [osol-discuss] Basic questions about pkg

2009-03-02 Thread James Carlson
Harry Putnam writes: > James Carlson writes: > > There aren't any. Should there be? > > I'm not telling pkg where to connect to on the command line. Yet it > knows. Its getting information somewhere... in some sense that is a > configuration. There are no files that are documented for you to

Re: [osol-discuss] Basic questions about pkg

2009-02-28 Thread Shawn Walker
Harry Putnam wrote: what does an `authority' designation look like (the URL). An authority is just the name of a source of software. A repository is a location to retrieve software from, such as http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev. Where is that set if not command line (pkg -a AUTH)? There is

Re: [osol-discuss] Basic questions about pkg

2009-02-28 Thread Harry Putnam
James Carlson writes: >> I did not find info about where to find any configuration files for >> pkg. > > There aren't any. Should there be? I'm not telling pkg where to connect to on the command line. Yet it knows. Its getting information somewhere... in some sense that is a configuration.

Re: [osol-discuss] Basic questions about pkg

2009-02-28 Thread James Carlson
Harry Putnam writes: > what does an `authority' designation look like (the URL). Here are two: http://pkg.opensolaris.org/ http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/ > Where is that set if not command line (pkg -a AUTH)? One comes with the system as normally installed. > I did not find in

[osol-discuss] Basic questions about pkg

2009-02-27 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm having a bit of trouble understanding some things about the pkg system. man pkg give a lot of info, but some things I'm not finding. what does an `authority' designation look like (the URL). Where is that set if not command line (pkg -a AUTH)? I did not find info about where to find any conf