Ahh, you are right - somehow missed it in the man page ...
Still, what remains unclear to me is the precise effect of the repository
search order compared to the "preferred" flag.
And, of course, the questionable utility of the old opensolaris publisher.
Best regards,
Oliver
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From: Bob Friesenhahn [bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us]
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2012 7:37 PM
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] managing repositories
On Sun, 11 Nov 2012, "Weiergräber, Oliver H." wrote:
>
> Didn't get any errors or warnings with these commands, but it seems
> to me that the "-p" option does not really exist. There is only a
> "-P" switch (upper case!), which marks a repository as preferred.
> But we don't want to generally prefer sfe over the core repository,
> do we? In fact, "pkg publisher" does not list any flags (such as
SFE packages are usually newer so they may be preferred.
> "preferred").
>
> So... what is the "-p" option meant to do? Is it maybe silently ignored?
I see it in the help output from 'pkg':
pkg set-publisher [-Ped] [-k ssl_key] [-c ssl_cert]
[-g origin_to_add|--add-origin=origin_to_add ...]
[-G origin_to_remove|--remove-origin=origin_to_remove ...]
[-m mirror_to_add|--add-mirror=mirror_to_add ...]
[-M mirror_to_remove|--remove-mirror=mirror_to_remove ...]
[-p repo_uri] [--enable] [--disable] [--no-refresh]
[--reset-uuid] [--non-sticky] [--sticky]
[--search-after=publisher]
[--search-before=publisher]
[--search-first]
[--approve-ca-cert=path_to_CA]
[--revoke-ca-cert=hash_of_CA_to_revoke]
[--unset-ca-cert=hash_of_CA_to_unset]
[--set-property name_of_property=value]
[--add-property-value name_of_property=value_to_add]
[--remove-property-value name_of_property=value_to_remove]
[--unset-property name_of_property_to_delete]
[publisher]
Bob
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