[OmniOS-discuss] Installing local packages?

[Dan Swartzendruber]

> 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.

Yeah, I get that.  What I don't get is the manpage telling me 'pkgadd -d
/foo' will install any packages in the directory '/foo', but it doesn't :(
 Either I am stupid or the wording in the manpage is confusing.  At any
rate, it worked finally :)