Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-06 Thread fabian . otto
* Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060104 14:38]: On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 13:34, Joerg Schilling wrote: We would need a few simple extensions to pkgadd to increase the usability. Which are ? Support for gziped or bzip2ed packages! It can already download packages over http or

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-06 Thread Darren J Moffat
On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 10:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060104 14:38]: On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 13:34, Joerg Schilling wrote: We would need a few simple extensions to pkgadd to increase the usability. Which are ? Support for gziped or bzip2ed

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-05 Thread Joerg Schilling
Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the man page: -d device Install or copy a package from device. device can be a full path name to a directory or the identifiers for tape, floppy disk, or removable disk (for example, /var/tmp

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-05 Thread Joerg Schilling
Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 13:49, Richard Lowe wrote: You're right though, it doesn't appear to be documented in pkgadd(1M), or anywhere else I can find. It is documented as the last sentence of the paragraph describing the -d option on pkgadd(1m).

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-05 Thread Casper . Dik
Not even in the man pages that come with SX B27 What man pages to you refer to? The -d option is mentioned twice; see below at OPERANDS where it specifies the URL. Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-05 Thread Joerg Schilling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not even in the man pages that come with SX B27 What man pages to you refer to? The -d option is mentioned twice; see below at OPERANDS where it specifies the URL. So it looks we found a bug in the man page: The second apperance seems to be a copy of the first

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-05 Thread Darren J Moffat
On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 10:49, Joerg Schilling wrote: Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the man page: -d device Install or copy a package from device. device can be a full path name to a directory or the identifiers for tape, floppy

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-05 Thread Darren J Moffat
On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 10:57, Joerg Schilling wrote: Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 13:49, Richard Lowe wrote: You're right though, it doesn't appear to be documented in pkgadd(1M), or anywhere else I can find. It is documented as the last sentence of

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-05 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mike Ditto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: Dave Miner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what an OpenSolaris compliant sticker would be designed to achieve, though, or why SVR4 packages are necessarily a part of it. Well I hope that the proliferation of

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-05 Thread Joerg Schilling
Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know what package-level compatability you are talking about... Today, *Solaris software distributes in next ways: 1) source tarball 2) binary tarball 3) autoextracting scripts .sh 4) SVR4 packages 5) custom installers I think it will be

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-05 Thread James Carlson
Joerg Schilling writes: The second apperance seems to be a copy of the first but only the second one was enhanced. Yes. I've filed CR 6369177 on this. Darren J Moffat writes: Is there an agreement that it would help to include some kind of tsort capabilities (against pkg dependencies)

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-05 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 14:41 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know what package-level compatability you are talking about... Today, *Solaris software distributes in next ways: 1) source tarball 2) binary tarball 3) autoextracting scripts .sh

[osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-05 Thread Eric Boutilier
Dave Miner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what an OpenSolaris compliant sticker would be designed to achieve, though... I'd like to underscore that statement. The concept of OpenSolaris compliant or OpenSolaris compatible is non-existent. (That's not to say I think

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Eric Boutilier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In light of all the recent work that's been done to bring Debian PM (apt) and Debian source repository support to Solaris, what would be the advantage to using pkgsrc over Debian? (That is, unless you're talking about having two package registries --

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 13:34, Joerg Schilling wrote: We would need a few simple extensions to pkgadd to increase the usability. Which are ? It can already download packages over http or https (with support for proxies specified in the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-04 Thread Richard Lowe
Joerg Schilling wrote: Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 13:34, Joerg Schilling wrote: We would need a few simple extensions to pkgadd to increase the usability. Which are ? It can already download packages over http or https (with support for proxies

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-04 Thread Casper . Dik
BTW: I see a http proxy option but no hint on how to use pkgadd via the network. pkgadd -d http:// Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-04 Thread Darren J Moffat
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 13:44, Joerg Schilling wrote: There are more (I curently don't remember the other ones) but the most important would be to make pkgadd able to autmatically install a list of packages in the right order, BTW: I see a http proxy option but no hint on how to use

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-04 Thread Darren J Moffat
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 13:49, Richard Lowe wrote: You're right though, it doesn't appear to be documented in pkgadd(1M), or anywhere else I can find. It is documented as the last sentence of the paragraph describing the -d option on pkgadd(1m). One other thing, packages (and patches) can also

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dave Miner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The package sources are being actively worked on - the roadmap says they'll be there this quarter, and we do believe that will be the case. That's nice to hear. I'm not sure what an OpenSolaris compliant sticker would be designed to achieve, though, or

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-04 Thread Mike Ditto
Joerg Schilling wrote: Dave Miner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what an OpenSolaris compliant sticker would be designed to achieve, though, or why SVR4 packages are necessarily a part of it. Well I hope that the proliferation of OpenSolaris-based distros doesn't create a proliferation

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-04 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 17:19 -0800, Mike Ditto wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: Dave Miner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what an OpenSolaris compliant sticker would be designed to achieve, though, or why SVR4 packages are necessarily a part of it. Well I hope that the proliferation of

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-02 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Erast Benson wrote: On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 08:53 +0530, Moinak Ghosh wrote: The current dpkg repository that is available (Nexenta) is built for a GNU/Solaris setup and is not suitable for a Solaris compatible OpenSolaris distro. that is not true. dpkg and apt-get are highly

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-02 Thread Erast Benson
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 23:01 +0530, Moinak Ghosh wrote: Erast Benson wrote: On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 08:53 +0530, Moinak Ghosh wrote: The current dpkg repository that is available (Nexenta) is built for a GNU/Solaris setup and is not suitable for a Solaris compatible OpenSolaris

[osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-01 Thread Eric Boutilier
pkgsrc on solaris looks very interesting to me, out of all the systems we have to choose from it seems to hit the sweet spot as far as my limited knowledge of pm goes... In light of all the recent work that's been done to bring Debian PM (apt) and Debian source repository support to

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-01 Thread Erast Benson
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 08:53 +0530, Moinak Ghosh wrote: Eric Boutilier wrote: pkgsrc on solaris looks very interesting to me, out of all the systems we have to choose from it seems to hit the sweet spot as far as my limited knowledge of pm goes... In light of all the recent work

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2005-12-30 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Ché Kristo wrote: so back on topic... pkgsrc on solaris looks very interesting to me, out of all the systems we have to choose from it seems to hit the sweet spot as far as my limited knowledge of pm goes...does anyone here have any sort of extensive experience using pkgsrc with solaris, if

[osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2005-12-29 Thread Ché Kristo
so back on topic... pkgsrc on solaris looks very interesting to me, out of all the systems we have to choose from it seems to hit the sweet spot as far as my limited knowledge of pm goes...does anyone here have any sort of extensive experience using pkgsrc with solaris, if so could you please