Pkgutil, the easy to use install utility, will soon be released as version 1.5 and I would like some extra testing.
One big change is that you can now have any number of mirrors configured and pkgutil will automatically select the latest package available unless you specify a version explicitly. For example, if you have this in pkgutil.conf: mirror=http://ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/opencsw/current mirror=http://mirror.opencsw.org/opencsw/testing It will pick from the testing mirror if a later version is available there but if you explicitly say that you want another version it will select that one, examples follow: # pkgutil -i memconf (will select memconf-2.10,REV=2009.03.23 from testing) # pkgutil -i memconf-2.9,REV=2008.11.21 (will select memconf-2.9,REV=2008.11.21 from current) Note that the syntax for the -t option has changed, you now don't have to add `uname -p`/`uname -r` any more so if you want to try a package from testing use this shorter command: # pkgutil -t http://mirror.opencsw.org/opencsw/testing -i <softwarename> Also, you should notice a big speed improvement when updating all packages (pkgutil -u), before pkgutil could spend considerable time finding dependencies but it should now be much faster. Here's the packages: http://mirror.opencsw.org/testing/pkgutil-1.5b3,REV=2009.03.19-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz http://mirror.opencsw.org/testing/pkgutil-1.5b3,REV=2009.03.19-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz If you're already running an older version of pkgutil you can update with: # pkgutil -t http://mirror.opencsw.org/opencsw/testing/`uname -p`/`uname -r` -u pkgutil Report directly back to me if you find any problems but please also tell me if it works. As always your comments for future versions are welcome. Thanks! -- /peter _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/users
