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installer /pkg update 1.5 - Mar. 22, '04, 3:31:51 AM
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Rodney
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The installer for the /Tools warehouse has been updated
to version 1.5. A new "bootstrap" installer is also available.
Version 1.5 of pkg (the installer package) includes
some additions, refinements and enhancements from the previous
version:
- a new option (-Q) to quiet informative messages that are of
interest to IT administrators and similar folk.
- now depends on pax/tar version 1.3 (which goes more quickly)
- the bootstrap installer does some more checks and can be run
across the /net filesystem now
- pkg_add is slightly faster now because of performance
improvements. The other utilities in pkg such as pkg_info
and pkg_delete have picked up some of these performance
improvements.
IFF you have not installed the installer before you should obtain
the bootstrap of the installer from:
ftp://ftp.interopsystems.com/pkgs/3.5/pkg-1.5-bin35.sh
Download this file and then run it as a shell script as a member
of the Administrators group or as an Administrator:
sh pkg-1.5-bin35.sh
If you have installed an earlier version (1.2 or 1.4) you can do
an update by doing:
pkg_add ftp://ftp.interopsystems.com/pkgs/3.5/pkg-1.5-bin.tgz
You can ignore messages about items that could not be deleted (honest).
In the future you can run with the '-Q' option.
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RE: installer /pkg update 1.5 - Mar. 28, '04, 2:04:47 AM
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Rodney
Posts: 3714
Joined: Jul. 9, '02,
From: /Tools lab
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There is an update to the installer.
The lastest version is now "1.5.2".
If you already have an earlier version of the installer
it can be updated by doing:
pkg_add ftp://ftp.interopsystems.com/pkgs/3.5/pkg-current-bin.tgz
IFF you have not installed the installer before you should obtain
the bootstrap of the installer from:
ftp://ftp.interopsystems.com/pkgs/3.5/pkg-1.5.2-bin35.sh
Download this file and then run it as a shell script as a member
of the Administrators group or as an Administrator:
sh pkg-1.5-bin35.sh
The previous release (1.5.1) fixed the setting of an environment variable
when pkg_delete was being run. This release, 1.5.2, fixes a bug that does
not appear on all systems reliably. The bug will be noticed when a dependant
package is to be installed. A message "missing package name" will be displayed.
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