[indiana-discuss] IPS - Installing selective packages from dev repository

[dick hoogendijk]

On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:12:45 PDT
Euan Thoms <euan at potensol.com> wrote:

> With regards to IPS (packaging system), is it possible to keep the
> release repository/tree as default authority yet install selective
> packages fro the dev repository? I want to upgrade to Firefox 3.5 but
> I want a stable environment for everything else.

Why don't you just install the FF-3.5.2 pkg from:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.5.2/contrib/solaris_pkgadd/firefox-3.5.2.en-US.opensolaris-i386-pkg.bz2

It works very well. All you have to do is (re)setting the path to
firefox in your menu. (or rename the one in /usr/bin)

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