[indiana-discuss] blatwave and sunfreeware IPS repositories broken?

[Brock Pytlik]

solarg wrote:
> hello all,
> henry at delljm:~$ pkg search -r dtpower
> pkg: Some servers failed to respond appropriately:
>     http://blastwave.network.com:10000/: 
> http://blastwave.network.com:10000/ doesn't speak a known version of 
> search operation
>
> anybody knows what's happen with this community repo? i have the same 
> problem with sunfreeware
> Does it mean that they are becoming unusable?
>
> thanks for help,
>
> gerard
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It doesn't necessarily mean they're becoming unusable overall, but their 
search lifetime is limited. The version of the depot software apparently 
running on those machines is old enough that the current client of 
search doesn't always speak to it correctly. Specifically, if a search 
on those servers returns no results, instead of getting an answer of 
"nothing found" you'll receive the above answer. We're also in the 
process of EOL'ing search v0, which is the only search those servers 
know how to speak. When that happens (sometime between now and the next 
release), you will no longer be able to search on those repos.

Here's the relevant bug:
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=7549

We encourage all people running a repo to keep their server software up 
to date with the release, but we can't force repo's out of our control 
to actually update.


Hope that helps,
Brock