Re: Binary pkg management.

Hey Aleksey,

On 5 January 2015 at 13:18, Aleksey Cheusov <vle%gmx.net@localhost> wrote:

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 7:01 PM, Steven Williamson <steven43126%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
The only sticky issue is if i have a version of a package i want to keep pinned to an older version on a subset of nodes. So i want the new version in the repo for some nodes but not others, currently i can't see an easy way to accomplish this. A pkgin full-upgrade would upgrade to the newest version available.

I implemented this feature in pkgtools/nih but didn't test it on SmartOS. You can try it instead of pkgin.

Thanks for your reply.

I have just taken a look at nih, looks great apart from it doesn't appear to support multiple repositories, which is something I am using with pkgin.

Plus i have a puppet provider already working for pkgin and it seems to be well tested on SmartOS at least.

Iv'e had a quick look at the source code for pkgin but my C is a bit rusty, and I have a fair bit of ground to cover to understand how it works internally and fits together with the pkgdb / sqlite / pkg_summary etc. I might see if i can spend an evening getting my head round pkgin and implementing a package "hold" feature. Seems to be my best bet so far.

Cheers

Steve.