Installing Solaris Packages directly via web
Until I’ve finalized my next larger article, I want to give spotlight to a really small, but really useful feature: One relatively 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 <CSWpkgget> was successful.
#
That’s all. As the packages just have to be accessible by http, you can use an existing internal webserver to serve your favorite "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 ;)