John, Perhaps a local pkgsrc mirror would be useful to you then? Even if you are not a Chef user, this cookbook that I helped author at my last org can help you set up a local mirror of the Joyent pkgsrc repo: https://github.com/wanelo-chef/pkgsrc
> On 06 Nov 2014, at 19:42, John Thurston via smartos-discuss > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 11/6/2014 5:15 AM, Jonathan Perkin wrote: >> * 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. > > Thank you for the help. I've been periodically checking in on Joyant and > SmartOS for years, but (until now) haven't had any spare x86 gear with which > to experiment. > > Removing nano, killing the cache contents, and reinstalling nano works. > Killing the zero-length files for perl-5.20.0nb2.tgz and nginx-1.6.0.tgz, > doesn't change the behavior of later attempts to "pkgin install nginx" > > Now knowing where the cache files live, I was able to wget the .tgz files > from http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/packages/SmartOS/2014Q2/x86_64/All, move them > into /var/db/pkgin/cache/, and pkgin happily accepted them and installed the > contents. At this stage of my life, unless someone tells me that bad things > will result, this is an acceptable workaround. > > I now suspect that the problems are at the network layer. My network path to > the rest of the world is littered with blocking, tracking, limiting, and > optimizing devices. Too much of my sysadmin time is devoted to finding ways > to get the broken network to transport the bits I require, but I'm used to it. > > -- > Do things because you should, not just because you can. > > John Thurston 907-465-8591 > [email protected] > Enterprise Technology Services > Department of Administration > State of Alaska > > > ------------------------------------------- > smartos-discuss > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/26679658-d7bb2457 > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
