[OmniOS-discuss] Installing local packages?

[Eric Sproul]

On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Dan Swartzendruber <dswartz at druber.com> wrote:
> Ah, okay, that's got it, thanks!  Kinda puzzle at the manpage which seems
> to be telling me if I do 'pkgadd' with no arguments, it will serve up any
> packages in /var/spool/pkg and if I give '-d SOMEDIR', it will do so for
> 'SOMEDIR'.  Hmmm...

These are SVR4 packages, which can exist either as a "datastream"
(single-file archive) or as a "file system", which is a directory
layout.  In SVR4 parlance, -d means "device" which could be a file,
directory or any other block or character device.

The man page of pkgtrans(1) has gory details if you're morbidly curious.

Eric