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Dennis Clarke wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Brought this over to the users mail list
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From: doofus <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:doofus@bulldoghome.com"><doofus@bulldoghome.com></a>
Date: Aug 1, 2005 11:02 AM
Subject: Re: [blastware-discuss] install paths
To: Blastware discussions <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:blastware-discuss@lists.blastwave.org"><blastware-discuss@lists.blastwave.org></a>
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<pre wrap="">"Blastware is not Blastwave !"
...it's mighty close though! ;O)
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is isn't it ? On purpose too .. thanks to me and my hunger for domain names.
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<pre wrap="">My problem still stands. I got pkg_get.pkg from
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.blastwave.org/pkg_get.pkg">http://www.blastwave.org/pkg_get.pkg</a>
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good man
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<pre wrap="">and installed it from a root shell according to the instructions.
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also good
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<pre wrap="">I'm guessing it's the pkg-get.conf files you refer to above.
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exactly and your system seems to be polluted with some bad conf files
in other places.
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<pre wrap="">/opt/csw/etc/pkg-get.conf is ok because its the one mentioned in the notes that
I've edited with my local mirror.
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geez .. this is supposed to be dead easy but, when you have oddball
conf files in other places then you should expect trouble.
find and delete ALL other pkg-get.conf files with the exception of the
one under /opt/csw because we really do mean it when we say everything
stays under /opt/csw. The only exceptions are startup scripts and a
very few other things that do make sense.
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<pre wrap="">There's no /etc/csw directory as you suggest
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who suggested that? where ?
No no .. there must be a /opt/csw/etc directory
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<pre wrap="">but there is a file /etc/pkg-get.conf which doesn't seem to be referenced
in any of the notes.
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KILL IT ! That thing is a problem. :-)
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<pre wrap="">Now that I look closely at the output from a pkg-get -i command it seems
the /opt/csw/etc/pkg-get.conf file isn't being used and the files are retrieved
from sunfreeware. Why?
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further evidence of truely fubar things happening.
OKay .. you should get a package list from /var/sadm/pkg and note what
you have that is from SFW and from CSW and you will see a difference.
I want you to "start over" and lets clean up your machines config. You
are supposed to get packages and dependencies from Blastwave and not
SunFreeware. If you want software from SunFreeware then fine, but
don't try to mix it and match it with our package base. Your asking
for trouble.
So then, what do you have in your /var/sadm/pkg directory that starts
with either CSW or SFW ? How about everything that is NOT starting
with SUNW ?
Inquiring minds want to know and I want your machine to work flawlessly :-)
Dennis Clarke
Director and Admin for blastwave.org
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dclarke@blastwave.org">dclarke@blastwave.org</a>
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<br>
While it seems highly likely that I've cocked-up somewhere I feel I
should spell out what I did yesterday:<br>
<br>
1. Install Solaris 8 onto a bare Ultra60 (full install excepting the
apache, netscape and registration packages).<br>
2. Install latest recommended S8 patches<br>
3. Install Java 1.5 SDK<br>
4. Install latest recommended Java patches<br>
<br>
At this point I use a rather fine clone script to mirror all the disk
slices onto the off-line second internal drive, identically
partitioned, with ufsdump.<br>
<br>
So now I'm sitting at a virgin Solaris 8 machine.<br>
Then the fun part - my introduction to blastwave.<br>
I believe I followed your instructions to the letter but wouldn't argue
against anyone telling me differently - clearly something went wrong.<br>
The copy of pkg-get.conf in /etc was identical the default one with
ibiblio default US mirror and without my edits.<br>
<br>
I remain utterly bamboozled as to how it got there. I certainly didn't
consciously copy it there, but even if it was down to some finger
trouble on my part, <b>how does the presence of this file explain the
pkg-get script in /opt/csw/bin downloading files from sunfreeware and
installing them to /usr/local/bin?</b> sunfreeware had not for any
reason even entered my mind.<br>
<br>
Anyway I've quickly restored the system from the cloned disk, gone
through it again - slightly different in that I ftp'd the initial files
from blastwave.org direct to the sparc (which doesn't yet have a
browser) instead of via a microsoft machine. It's looking good so far.<br>
<br>
I'm extremely grateful for your help and time Dennis, and now I'll butt
out of this place I don't belong.<br>
<br>
Willie<br>
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