Subject: Re: pkgsrc bootstrap kit for Solaris 10?
To: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org>
From: Raymond Meyer <raymond.meyer@rambler.ru>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 08/17/2006 15:00:21
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:32:06 -0400
Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org> wrote:

> Raymond Meyer <raymond.meyer@rambler.ru> wrote:
> 
> > If you can wait until then, you'll save yourself a lot of time and
> > effort, because setting up pkgsrc on Solaris is quite a fiddly
> > process.
> 
> It is?  I just did the following:
> 
> - install SUNWgcc
> - add /usr/ucb,/usr/sfw/bin,/usr/ccs/bin,/usr/xpg4/bin to PATH
> - ftp and extract pkgsrc tarball
> - cd /usr/pkgsrc/bootstrap
> - ./bootstrap
> - add /usr/pkg/bin, /usr/pkg/sbin to PATH
> - done
> 
> -Jan

If you want to use pkgsrc for building sofware on Solaris (i.e. not just
installing pre-built binary packages), then your quick description is missing a
lot of details.