* On 2014-11-06 at 00:40 GMT, John Thurston via smartos-discuss wrote:

> I'm a SmartOS newbie who is trying to figure out what might be interfering
> with pkgin behavior.
> 
> I can "pkgin -y install nano" and everything works as expected. But if I
> "pkgin -y install nginx-1.6.0", I see the following:

For it to work with one package but not another is strange, and I'm
wondering if nano is simply cached - you could try removing the file
from /var/db/pkgin/cache, deleting the nano package then trying again
to make sure.

> where it sits... and sits.... and sits. If I fire up a snoop session, I can
> see some HTTP activity and some error-responses to DNS requests. But after a
> few hours, it is still sitting and I still don't have nginx installed.

I've not seen this and am unaware of reports of it happening for
others, without a full trace it's hard to debug what might be going
wrong.  If this continues then I can provide instructions on building
a debug libfetch to get additional logging.

> I'm able to get the packages with wget in less than a second
> >wget 
> >http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/packages/SmartOS/2014Q2/x86_64/All/nginx-1.6.0.tgz
> 
> so what is the hangup with pkgin? Any tips on where to look would be
> appreciated.

pkgin uses libfetch as its HTTP backend, the same as pkg_add, so you
could verify that it might be a possible libfetch bug by trying:

  $ pkg_add nginx-1.6.0

instead to see if that fails in the same way as pkgin.  Otherwise
normal network analysis using snoop for the lifetime of the process.

> Alternatively, is there an easy syntax for pkgin by which I can just
> wget the tgz files and point pkgin at them in my local filesystem?

You can download them using any utility and then run:

  $ pkg_add /path/to/file.tgz

though you will need to handle dependencies yourself if you want to do
this with a package which needs additional packages (pkg_add will look
in the same directory as the source package).

> (By way of disclosure, I am a two-day-old SmartOS newbie but I'm pretty
> comfortable with Solaris 10, zones, zfs, and pkgutil.)

Welcome ;)

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


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