[OpenIndiana-discuss] pkg mediator vendor vs. system?

[Tim Mooney]

In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] pkg mediator vendor vs. system?,...:

> On Thu, Jul 16, 2026 at 01:24:03PM -0500, Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>> $ pkg mediator -a openssl
>> MEDIATOR            VER. SRC. VERSION IMPL. SRC. IMPLEMENTATION
>> openssl             vendor    1.0     vendor     openssl
>> openssl             system    3       system     openssl
>
> system - default priority; (comes from packages)
> vendor - higher priority than system; comes from packages
> local - higher priority than vendor; set by administrator
>
>> Why is one "vendor" and one "system"?  What does that imply?
>
> See above.  It implies that 1.0 is of higher priority.

Thanks for the explanation Marcel!  That helps a bunch.

>> How
>> can I tell if any of my system's mediators are stuck in a non-default
>> state?
>
> pkg mediator | grep local

So it is similar to 'pkg facet', I just didn't have any examples of
'local' on my system to discover that.

Thanks again,

Tim
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