Migrating from Blastwave to OpenCSW

You cannot mix Blastwave packages with OpenCSW packages.

You need to migrate your packages, which means you need to uninstall all Blastwave packages and install corresponding OpenCSW packages.

Instructions

Install CSWpkgutil, it provides the admin file required later.

Create a list of currently installed CSW packages (Blastwave uses CSW package namespace), except CSWwget:

(cd /var/sadm/pkg; echo CSW*) | tr ' ' '\n' \
  | grep -v CSWwget | grep -v CSWpkgutil \
  > /var/tmp/before-migration.list

Configure pkgutil to use an OpenCSW mirror. Do you have 2 copies of pkgutil.conf, one in /opt/csw/etc and one in /etc/opt/csw? Make sure you only have one copy, use /etc/opt/csw as the location:

opencsw_mirror="http://mirror.opencsw.org/opencsw/unstable/"
cp /etc/opt/csw/pkgutil.conf /etc/opt/csw/pkgutil.conf.bak
gsed -e '/^\s*mirror=/d' -i /etc/opt/csw/pkgutil.conf
echo >> /etc/opt/csw/pkgutil.conf "mirror=${opencsw_mirror}"

Uninstall all the packages from the list. In order to uninstall all the packages in a batch mode, we need to use a so called admin file. There’s one provided by CSWpkgutil, /var/opt/csw/pkgutil/admin

for pkg in `cat /var/tmp/before-migration.list`; do \
  pkgrm -n -a /var/opt/csw/pkgutil/admin $pkg; \
done

Update pkgutil’s catalog cache:

pkgutil -U

Create a new list of packages to install. Some packages have been renamed and the package names aren’t exactly the same in OpenCSW as in Blastwave. You can compare the list of packages against a catalog file to figure out which exact packages you need:

cp /var/tmp/before-migration.list /var/tmp/after-migration.list

Use pkgutil to install the packages from the new list:

for pkg in `cat /var/tmp/after-migration.list`; do \
  pkgutil -y -i $pkg; \
done