[SOLVED] manually installing package from repo in OpenSolaris gives bad format in datastream e
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manually installing package from repo in OpenSolaris gives bad format in datastream e
I need to install some packages on OpenSolaris 09-06 but the only place I can find them is in this ISO http://genunix.org/dist/indiana/osol-repo-0906-full.iso
I've had some difficulty setting up a local repo so I'm looking to install the package manually but pkgadd -d gives:
Code:
bad format in datastream table-of-contents
pkgadd ERROR: could not process datastream from </home/admin/0_5_11_2C5_11_0.111_3A20090508T>
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Last edited by Mark_667; 11-16-2011 at 08:59 AM.
Reason: typos
Distribution: Solaris 11.4, Oracle Linux, Mint, Debian/WSL
Posts: 9,789
Rep:
You cannot do that. pkgadd expects legacy SVR4 packages while IPS is using its own internal format which is only exposed as a network protocol with this version.
Distribution: Solaris 11.4, Oracle Linux, Mint, Debian/WSL
Posts: 9,789
Rep:
Well, there is one way but not in the direction you are expecting. You can send a SVR4 package to an IPS repository and make it available there but the opposite hasn't been implemented.
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