On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 3:23 AM, Victor Hooi <[email protected]> wrote: > Firstly, is there any functional difference with using pkg-util and pkg-add?
Not for the actual package installation which is done by pkgadd in both cases (pkgutil uses pkgadd/pkgrm/pkginfo) so the end result should be the same. > I have OpenSolaris installed locally in a VM - I was simply going to run > pkg-util to install everything, get the list of packages from there > (suggestions?), then download all of those into a directory to give to the > sysadmins. You can use the stream option in pkgutil to make this easier. Something like: # pkgutil -d --stream python puppet ...would download python and puppet and all their dependencies into a single package stream. It will also print the required install order so you can give the sysadmins that. > And secondly - will there be issues if they relocate the packages from > /opt/csw to /usr/local (internal rule, unfortunately). Anything we need to > do? Yes, as I said previously most packages are not relocatable, that is they will look for configuration files and libraries in, e.g., /etc/opt/csw and /opt/csw/lib. Kind of an odd rule you have there I would say since both /usr/local and /opt are commonly used to install 3rd party software. It's not like we want to install stuff in /usr/bin. > Finally, are there any issues with the order of installation? Normally, > pkg-util would take care of dependency tracking and ordering here, but we're > going with pkgadd. Should I give the sysadmins a particular order to install > in, and if so, how would I go about getting that order via pkg-util on my > local Solaris VM? See above. /peter _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/users
