[csw-maintainers] the future of pkg-get...

Dagobert Michelsen dam at opencsw.org
Mon Sep 5 22:14:03 CEST 2011


Hi Ben,

Am 05.09.2011 um 22:12 schrieb Ben Walton:
> Excerpts from Dagobert Michelsen's message of Mon Sep 05 16:00:01 -0400 2011:
>> Hi Ben,
> 
>> pkg_get_stub could provide a message of the type "2".
> 
> Wouldn't this be too easy to miss in the output?  Or are you saying
> that the _stub package should deliver a single file with a script
> capable of dumping this message in addition to pulling in pkgutil?

Yes, pkg_get_stub has a file /opt/csw/bin/pkg-get which does

#!/bin/sh

echo <<EOF
The use of pkg-get is deprecated. Please use pkgutil(1) instead.
EOF

exit 1


Best regards

  -- Dago


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