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0001011

[pkg_get] regular use

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2005-06-15 20:55

2008-11-13 20:06

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T.Maier-Komor

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phil

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normal

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open

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assigned

Summary

0001011: RFE: make pkg_get compatible with flag -R of pkgadd

Description

It would be nice if one could select an alternative root directory for the installation of packages. This option is available in pkgadd with the command line parameter -R. Unfortunately passing such a flag to pkg_get via the config variable PKGADDFLAGS in pkg_get.conf does not do the trick, as this option is not passed to pkginfo during the check, if the package is already installed and all dependencies are fulfilled.

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This feature would be nice to have in a live upgrade environment, where blastwave packages could be installed on a shared slice as an alternate root path and lofs mounted to the boot environment. This solves the problem of keeping blastwave package metadata consistent across different boot environments.

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(0005381) philadmin (viewer) 2008-11-13 20:05	Hmm. I revisited this request... unfortunately, since I use a "cheat" in package detection at some points, it requires more effort than just using PKGADDFLAGS. I will have to add a -R option to pkg-get itself. I think this is a worthwhile effort, and I intend to do so in the future.

(0005382) philadmin (viewer) 2008-11-13 20:06	Until then, chroot should probably work for you, of course.