* On 2014-06-26 at 22:48 BST, Anil Jangity wrote:

> Honestly, I am not sure I have the time and my clients aren't
> willing to analyze each of these reports to figure out which is
> important or not.

That's fine, we just offer the choice.  If you install many other
operating systems you don't get any notification whatsoever, so you
could just turn it off and pretend to be on Ubuntu etc :)

> Is it possible to install+bootstrap these pkgsrc packages into a
> directory other than /opt/pkg? (will things break, e.g. SMF
> manifests) One way I think might help with upgrades if I can run
> multiple pkgsrc in a single zone?
>
> Something like:
> /data/2014Q1
> /data/2014Q2
> /opt/pkg -> /data/2014Q1
>
> Perhaps then we could migrate from one set to another easily
> otherwise having to re-provision means that kind of requires a ton
> of other steps.

No, this isn't possible, the binaries are built for a specific prefix,
in our case /opt/local.  What you can do however is build packages
yourself into a custom prefix, there are some docs here:

  http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/bulk.html

I plan to write a smaller one at some point which covers just
bootstrap + builds to make things simpler.

It's unlikely however that this would be any simpler than just
re-provisioning, and again you would miss out on any of the non-pkgsrc
upgrades introduced in newer images.  It's more for the cases where
you want to build packages with non-standard options, etc.

-- 
Jonathan Perkin  -  Joyent, Inc.  -  www.joyent.com


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