[oi-dev] oi_151a9 roadmap & planning

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 02/12/14 11:42 PM, Jean-Pierre André wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> On 02/12/14 12:41 PM, Peter Tribble wrote:
>>> (Ideally, you want other communities to build and distribute software
>>> for you. That's one area where IPS is a huge obstacle - all this
>>> repository stuff is an intolerable burden on third parties,
>>
>> Nearly all package systems have repositories, what makes IPS more
>> intolerable
>> than the rest?   (Or had you just not noticed that support for package
>> archives,
>> basically tarball versions of IPS packages, was added to IPS in years past?
>
> Oh, great, I did not know.
>
> I have three computers, but the hardware for two of them is
> not supported by OI. I can only install OI on third one,
> but the WiFi network access is not supported.
>
> So, basically I have to download through Windows or Linux,
> but I do not known how to "ftp" or "wget" an update, or
> anything which is not available in an ISO, from an IPS ?
>
> I am the maintainer of ntfs-3g. How should I deposit an "IPS
> package" on a plain web server I do not control ?
> (see http://jp-andre.pagesperso-orange.fr/openindiana-ntfs-3g.html)

Follow the instructions in the link I provided to use pkgrecv to
generate a .p5p archive on the machine you're using to create the
package:

>> http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26502_01/html/E21383/pkgcreate.html#gluem

Figuring out how you post a file on a web site you do not control is
your problem to solve - I can't help you there.

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