[csw-maintainers] Notes on pkgutil vs. pkg-get
Jeffery Small
jeff at cjsa.com
Wed Apr 11 22:23:05 CEST 2012
Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> writes:
>Excerpts from jeff's message of Wed Apr 11 08:54:11 -0400 2012:
>> 3) The "-s url" option in pkg-get is now "-t url".
>An important distinction between these two options is that pkg-get
>would _only_ consider packages at the alternate url. Thus, you didn't
>get any required dependency updates from the main catalog.
>With pkgutil, on the other hand, you get your primary catalog, with
>this temporary catalog overlaid. That means you'll get any packages
>from the temporary url and any dependencies that may live in the main
>catalog. It's much more useful this way. :)
Thanks Ben. That's very good to know!
Regards,
--
Jeff
C. Jeffery Small CJSA LLC 206-232-3338
jeff at cjsa.com 7000 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island, WA 98040
More information about the maintainers
mailing list