Less known Solaris Features: Installing packages directly from web
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:
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 ;)