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

Sebastian Kayser skayser at opencsw.org
Mon Sep 28 22:23:54 CEST 2009


Philip Brown wrote on 28.09.2009 22:15:
> 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?

As a user, i never cared about those wgets in particular. What i cared
about and still do care about is a working and easily distributable
package utility.

Sebastian



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