[OpenIndiana-discuss] local ips packages

hairryharry hairryharry at tesco.net
Fri Feb 11 09:38:03 UTC 2011


Thorsten Heit wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   
>> I ahve just set up my netbook withoi148. All good but have downloaded
>> and installed a lot of packages from various IPS repos.
>>
>> Now I am setting up my desktop and would like the same packages. Using
>> the package manager export function does make life a little easier but
>> the packages still need to be downloaded.
>>
>> My question is are those packages still present on the netbook such that
>> I can easily transfer them over and use a local repo to install them on
>> the desktop.
>>     
>
> The package files should be contained under /var/pkg/download as long as 
> the pkg property "flush-content-cache-on-success" isn't set to "false"; 
> see "pkg property".
>
>
> HTH
>
> Thorsten
>
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Thanks  - they are all sitting there - very cryptically named so I think 
trying to use them may be beyond me.

I think easier just to use export and let the desktop machine sit and 
download them all from their respective repos.

Thanks for your help.

Mike



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