[csw-users] Odd problem installing pkg-get

[Dennis Clarke]

On 2/28/06, Krist van Besien <krist.vanbesien at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/28/06, Dennis Clarke <blastwave at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 2/28/06, Chris Ridd <chris.ridd at isode.com> wrote:
> > > On 28/2/06 2:59, Krist van Besien <krist.vanbesien at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On 2/28/06, Dennis Clarke <blastwave at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >> On 2/28/06, Krist van Besien <krist.vanbesien at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > We more or less did that. We installed pkg-get on a system that never
> > > > had it. We created a /opt/cs/etc/pkg-get.conf file.
> >
> > I'll assume /opt/csw/etc/pkg-get.conf
> >
> > which you did not need to create .. because it gets created for you
> > when you install CSWpkg_get
> >
> > let's go back through this step by step and fix this situation okay ?
> >
> > First .. run the fol :
> >
> > pkginfo | grep CSW
> >
> > and then show me what you get
>
> Can't do that anymore as a) our sysadmins have gone home and I don't
> have root on production systems and b) it would give us a whole list
> of installed CSW packages, as we went on to install quite a bit after
> copying the config to etc.
>
> What we told the sysadmins to do was literally the following:
>
> 1) pkgadd -d pkg_get.pkg
> 2) vi /opt/csw/etc/pkg-get.conf
> (to change the mirror url to url=http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/csw/stable)
> 3) /opt/csw/bin/pkg-get -U
>
> This worked fine on the first server, but on the other three pkg-get
> -U first complained about a missing config file... The file was most
> definitely not missing.
>
> All I can do now is post-mortems. I can not go back an do it all over
> again. I am just left with the mistery...
>

The pkg-get tool is amazingly simple.

Perhaps I need to rewrite the HOWTO again at www.blastwave.org/howto.html

Dennis