[csw-maintainers] Cherry-picking unstable packages

[Guillaume Rousse]

Hello list.

We have a dizain solaris server here (at works), and I'm trying to push 
the same software we use on other platforms on them. That's why I 
packaged fusioninventory-agent and rsyslog recently.

My dilemn is that those packages are currently in the "unstable" 
catalog, whereas my solaris hosts are currently configured to use tje 
"testing" catalog, so I can't install them easily through pkgutil. I see 
the following strategies:

1) wait for those packages to be available in "testing"
2) manually pull and install those packages from the mirror
3) switch all those hosts to use "unstable"

I don't have any ETA for 1, and 3 seems quite hazardous, so I think 2 is 
the best compromise. However, if pkg-add is the functional equivalence 
of rpm in linux world, I fear I'll have to resolve dependencies 
manually... Is there any better tools to achieve it ?
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