Re: [Pkgutil-users] Problems Using Pkgutil

[Peter B. <bon...@op...>]

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Fred Strickland
<fre...@ho...> wrote:
> Good morning everyone,
>
> I just joined this list, because the resources for helping new people are
> broken:

Welcome to the list and thanks for telling us about the broken links.
Note though that pkgutil has its own web site (pkgutil.net), I hope
instructions there are good enough to get started. There's also a
users list for OpenCSW that you may be interested in
(https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/users).

>   The link for a quckstart cocumentation page from www.opencsw.org/support
> is broken.
>   The link for the user guide from the same URL is broken.

I have fixed both of these now.

> I looked at the CSW mail list archieve for July 2011 and I see some
> individuals had problems with the catalog.  Their issue is not same as
> mine.  I receive the following message whenever I execute most options from
> pkgutil:
>
>   # pkgutil -i firefox
> Solving needed dependencies ...
> Package firefox not in catalog. Exiting.

Looking below I think you probably don't have a catalog at all.

> When I try to obtain the latest catalog, I receive this error message:
>
> # /opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -U
> => Fetching new catalog and descriptions
> (http://ftp.math.purdue.edu/mirrors/opencsw.org/current/sparc/5.10) if
> available ...
> --09:41:27--
> http://ftp.math.purdue.edu/mirrors/opencsw.org/current/sparc/5.10/catalog
>            =>
> `/var/opt/csw/pkgutil/catalog.ftp.math.purdue.edu_mirrors_opencsw.org_current_sparc_5.10'
> Resolving ftp.math.purdue.edu... failed: node name or service name not
> known.
> Fetching of catalog failed.
> #

That mirror works for me, I think you're having an issue with DNS
and/or proxy. Can you resolve ftp.math.purdue.edu?

# dig ftp.math.purdue.edu

Pkgutil uses wget for fetching files so if you can fetch the catalog
manually with, in this case, "wget
http://ftp.math.purdue.edu/mirrors/opencsw.org/current/sparc/5.10/catalog",
pkgutil should be able to do it as well.


/peter