Less known Solaris Features...

Until i´ve finalized my next larger article, i want to give spotlight to a really small, but really useful feature: One relativly unknown feature of recent versions of pkgadd is the ability to load packages directly from web. You just have to specify an URL:

# pkgadd -d http://www.blastwave.org/pkg_get.pkg

## Downloading...
..............25%..............50%..............75%..............100%
## Download Complete


The following packages are available:
1 CSWpkgget pkg_get - CSW version of automated package download tool
(all) 3.8.4

[..]

Installation of was successful.
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That´s all. As the packages just have to be accessible by http, you can use an existing internal webserver to serve your favourite "must-have" extra packages and install them directly from there. Okay, and solves the problem nicely to get started with Blastwave without moving around the pkg_get package via ftp