On 23 Oct 2010, at 10:05, Andrey N. Oktyabrski wrote: > On 10/23/10 12:24, James O'Gorman wrote: >>> Why not to use pkgsrc? >> Several reasons, the least of which being that pkgsrc requires >> installing its own pkg utilities and therefore not IPS. > But I can download packages, write it on cd/dvd/flash, go to the > place-without-internet and install there.
You can do that with IPS - you just spin up a repo, send your packages to it, shut down the repo, burn it to a CD, then spin it up at the destination and install from it. The on-disk package format has also been standardised, I'm not sure if IPS on disk packages are here now or coming soon. Cheers, Alasdair _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
