[csw-maintainers] pkgutil version updates on the mirror roots? Make pkgutil package ARCH=all?

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Mon Sep 28 22:15:13 CEST 2009


On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Sebastian Kayser <skayser at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> pkgutil was placed straight at the mirror root a while ago to facilitate
> downloading, but it doesn't seem to get updates. The version floating
> around [1,2] is 1.5, most recent pkgutil is 1.7. Could this please be
> fixed (and be kept in sync in the future pleeeaase :).
>....
>
> I see, the package contains a wget which is platform specific. Couldn't
> we just include two wgets (wget.i386, wget.sparc)?

for the record, that's exactly we provide "two wgets" binaries, in the
mirror root itself, directly.
Kinda silly to include yet another wget binary wrapped in a package at
that level, isnt it?



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