Removing a repository and changing the search order

There are some good administrative commands to maintain the consistency of the repository configuration. However, the publisher doesn't always maintain its importance and priorities, and this gives us the flexibility to invert the order of the search.

Getting ready

To follow this recipe, it's necessary that we have a machine (physical or virtual) running Oracle Solaris 11; we log in to the system as the root user and open a terminal. Access to the Internet is optional.

How to do it…

We remove a publisher using the following commands:

root@solaris11:~# pkg unset-publisher Symantec
root@solaris11:~# pkg publisher
PUBLISHER                   TYPE     STATUS P LOCATION
solaris                     origin   online F http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/
solaris                     mirror   online F http://localhost:9999/
training                    origin   online F http://localhost:8888/
solarisstudio               origin   online F https://pkg.oracle.com/solarisstudio/release/

We might still prefer that the search action look for a specific publisher before another one. This task can be executed using the following commands:

root@solaris11:~# pkg set-publisher --search-before training solarisstudio
root@solaris11:~# pkg publisher
PUBLISHER                   TYPE     STATUS P LOCATION
solaris                     origin   online F http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/
solaris                     mirror   online F http://localhost:9999/
solarisstudio               origin   online F https://pkg.oracle.com/solarisstudio/release/
training                    origin   online F http://localhost:8888/

An overview of the recipe

This short recipe teaches us how we can change the search order of repositories according to our best interests.