[csw-maintainers] Easify OpenCSW bootstrapping on a server

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Tue Sep 21 21:51:55 CEST 2010


On 9/21/10, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Hi Phil,
>
> Am 21.09.2010 um 20:27 schrieb Philip Brown:
>> It seems like this issue has been a little misrepresented.
>> We already HAVE "one line bootstrapping" via the pkgutil method.
>> One that is already mentioned on our web site:
>>
>> # pkgadd -d http://mirror.opencsw.org/opencsw/pkgutil-`uname -p`.pkg
>>
>> This doesnt seem complicated to me. A one line cut-n-paste. Easy.
>
> It is not complicated. But it can be even less complicated by
> not having to specify `uname -p`. After reviewing the old
> discussion I can't see a particular reason to not include
> wget to a generic version.
>
> It really boils down to beauty vs. ease-of-use. Beauty is
> of course nice to look at, but it is not a virtue of its own.
>
>
> Best regards
>
>    -- Dago
>
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