How to manually download individual files from the OpenIndiana (or Solaris) pkg repo?

Question

For a server in an offline environment, how would I download a package from http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev? (or the better known http://pkg.oracle.com)

There is an install link which downloads a p5i file, with machine readable download information, but there is no http URL to the downloadable package file(s) or the listing of files.

Answer 1

The easiest way is to use pkgrecv to pull the package from a source repository to a local repository. IPS is a network package system so you can't currently install packages from a single file like you could with SVr4 datastreams. Last I heard (before the Oracle takeover) was that the pkg5 guys were working on an on-disk format but I don't think it got finalised. I can check with one of the developers if you like though. Anyway, that's by the by.

What you need to do

1. Create a local package repo:

   pkgrepo create /path/to/localrepo
   

2. Grab packages from remote repo:

   pkgrecv -s http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev -d /path/to/localrepo <FMRI_or_glob_of_packages>
   

It's been a while since I did this (last time was when OpenSolaris was on the verge of shutdown and we [OpenIndiana team] were grabbing packages from OpenSolaris /dev) but you might need to set the publisher of your local repo to be the openindiana.org publisher:

pkgrepo set -s publisher/prefix=openindiana.org /path/to/localrepo

Start a pkg.depotd instance so that pkg can use it:

pkg.depotd -d /path/to/localrepo -p 10000

(You probably want to set this up in SMF. Follow the howto on the OpenIndiana wiki.)

Then add your local repo as an origin of openindiana.org:

pkg set-publisher -g http://localhost:10000 openindiana.org

And finally...

No, there really isn't an easier way of doing this. This is one of the reasons I don't like the move to IPS.

Answer 2

A package in an IPS repository only makes sense within the context of actually installing the package via the pkg(1) command over the network. A package is not represented as a single file within an IPS repo; instead, the manifest file for a package keeps track of the various bits. My understanding is that this allows for efficient upgrades since only changed files need to be transferred.

One option is to mirror the IPS repository to the local system or to another system that is accessible. There are instructions at the old OpenSolaris site and on OpenIndiana's wiki. It has been a while since I mirrored an IPS repo, however, so I cannot comment on the accuracy of the instructions at those links.

There are likely other options, but I don't know them off the top of my head.

Answer 3

The manifest is directly available http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev/manifest/0/developer%2Fbuild%2Fmake%400.5.11%2C5.11-0.151.1%3A20110912T022544Z.

The only thing that remains is to figure out how to get those individual files, listed in this fashion

file b8dac4eaeabc7d41b4bff842a2f6b54cb36449d7 chash=f3998eb4b0aa99b3c54682f1a765e19215e15622 group=bin mode=0755 owner=root path=usr/bin/sccsdiff pkg.csize=1620 pkg.size=3798
file 9b1eb9d425c9de60eba5759368160e709fb51143 chash=0de4a47b23c1ac5121c9216ec854b197c18bfe24 group=bin mode=0644 owner=root path=usr/lib/help/locale/C/ad pkg.csize=2201 pkg.size=5762
file 0f594094532464eab978e00d4d3e18519538fe7b chash=e6685b5da6534ef06ad4aa51c4655fe72f98a2f1 group=bin mode=0644 owner=root path=usr/lib/help/locale/C/bd pkg.csize=1082 pkg.size=2089
file a0d207452b8fa6dd62661cd8349fe92ae415de10 chash=67fd628d7578b7fd907eb75b973c91aeb7b06fee group=bin mode=0644 owner=root path=usr/lib/help/locale/C/cb pkg.csize=805 pkg.size=1498
file 6267fe29483aaffdd5ca7dadab0866e3c23024f5 chash=d769eee8c86a2aefb0af1abb6d55dd559b26864e group=bin mode=0644 owner=root path=usr/lib/help/locale/C/cm pkg.csize=1581 pkg.size=3341
file 18691bfa26474c1133b6ac55897f15bba8cf669a chash=55a97bca8ce191bae3621ace062f3192bf0def18 group=bin mode=0644 owner=root path=usr/lib/help/locale/C/cmds pkg.csize=2279 pkg.size=6573
file 614eef6da7707fa4c77e5a0c958ec42eb1f7c68c chash=36df818d773e392d585fd58cf65d3dab93466528 group=bin mode=0644 owner=root path=usr/lib/help/locale/C/co pkg.csize=2284 pkg.size=5010
file 50e3e4dd1731dd07e7633afab6da1825527a312d chash=8e98dd2c2a45cc35993e3c373ecace197b65e900 group=bin mode=0644 owner=root path=usr/lib/help/locale/C/de pkg.csize=2108 pkg.size=4651

Edit: Individual files can be downloaded with a URL like this example: http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev/file/0/b8dac4eaeabc7d41b4bff842a2f6b54cb36449d7

Only one thing remains. How to install these files.