I'm running OpenSolaris 2008.05 now but I don't know how can I add these repositories?

At the end of this slide is said, how can be added repositories

http://frsun.downloads.edgesuite.net/sun/08D12331/index.html

somthing like this:

su
pkg set-authority -O http://pkg.sunfreeware.com:9000 sunfreeware.com

that is all ...
the http ... is the link to page with packages and the sunfreeware.com is name showed in package manager ...

Support for adding additional repositories in the graphical package manager is coming soon - for now, the suggested command lines will work fine from a terminal.

keep in mind that Blastwaves IPS repository is not necessarily functional and in just about all cases does not work. I suggest folks hold off using it until it is "launched".

After adding blastwave I attempted to add totem to the system.

It appears that whatever this wretched package system interface is called tried to recursively check all dependencies - for the blast wave repository - in addition to the domain of the totem package.

After about 20 minutes of checking, the system became unresponsive and a quick check of the disk light implied it was in swap death.

My system is a core 2 duo with 2 GB of ram.

I was in another desktop when I noticed the unresponsiveness and it took a while to get swapped back to the relevant desktop.

I was unable to alt F4 the window - I never got focus, but cntl-alt-backspace eventually killed X , which killed the package system process and brought me to a gdm login prompt.

Gdm cleverly does not have a shutdown or restart option - not available on gdmsetup dialog from root - so I had to log in again. Various applets failed to start, bug buddy came up - don't bother sending the bug report when this happens as there is insufficient debugging information available for developers to get a handle on the problem.

When the desktop stabilized i immediately did a shut down - which didn't, but which did get me to a blank screen. When the disk light stopped I powered off.

Power up was uneventful, other then a volume manager crash with a usb stick present at boot time. Visual symptom was two volumes marked Am on the desktop when there was only one usb stick present. This problem however appears to be a result of yesterday's playful update entitled "entire incorporation" - this is the actual title of the update as shown in package manager, I'm not making this up. The update, which was a mere 2 GB download, also left x disordered and I had to do a /usr/X11/bin/xorgconfig to create an xorg.conf file in /etc/X11. As I have my xorg.conf from freebsd 7.0 stable and ubuntu linux I was able to do a sanity check on the file before handing my fate to X and gdm on the next reboot. This reboot was successful, but the gdm screen uses wrong horizontal and vertical refresh parameters for its mode setting. The login to the desktop results in correct screen resolution, screen size and vertical refresh rate.

Be careful about adding new repositories until this bug - if it is a bug and not a result of a design flaw of the package system -- is fixed.

caindie

Edited by: caindie on May 8, 2008 12:25 PM

Edited by: caindie on May 8, 2008 1:17 PM

There are:
http://pkg.lifewithsolaris.jp:10000/
and experimental:
http://pkg.opensolaris.org/webstack/
repositories, FYI.

Regards

As of build 117 (and highly possible in 111b as well), you can add additional repositories in Package Manager; I've added three repos this way (Blastwave, SunFreeware, and a GStreamer plugin repo referenced in this forum).