[SunHELP] Solaris 11.1 install new package from Oracle/remote thru proxy

[Jerry Kemp]

NOTE: duplicate email sent to rescue list.  meant to send both together but 
didn't.  Sorry.
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trying to assist a friend at a different company with limited Solaris experience.

Normally easy stuff, but, in short, new VM, fresh install of Solaris 11.1 x86/64 
and needs to pull packages directly from Oracle.

The monkey wrench in his gears is no direct Internet access, only available thru 
proxy server.

# pkg publisher

shows default settings

from the help page from pkg, I found this
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         pkg set-publisher [-Ped] [-k ssl_key] [-c ssl_cert]
             [-g origin_to_add|--add-origin=origin_to_add ...]
             [-G origin_to_remove|--remove-origin=origin_to_remove ...]
             [-m mirror_to_add|--add-mirror=mirror_to_add ...]
             [-M mirror_to_remove|--remove-mirror=mirror_to_remove ...]
             [-p repo_uri] [--enable] [--disable] [--no-refresh]
             [--reset-uuid] [--non-sticky] [--sticky]
             [--search-after=publisher]
             [--search-before=publisher]
             [--search-first]
             [--approve-ca-cert=path_to_CA]
             [--revoke-ca-cert=hash_of_CA_to_revoke]
             [--unset-ca-cert=hash_of_CA_to_unset]
             [--set-property name_of_property=value]
             [--add-property-value name_of_property=value_to_add]
             [--remove-property-value name_of_property=value_to_remove]
             [--unset-property name_of_property_to_delete]
             [--proxy proxy to use]
             [publisher]
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so I gave him this command to try

# pkg set-publisher --proxy http://10.160.0.1:8080 -p \ <-new line
http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release


pkg.oracle.com is the public package repository.

The command executes without error or warning then returns to the command prompt.

New package commands, such as

# pkg update

do not seem to generate any new traffic over the network interface as is being 
watched with snoop


I have never had to configure the pkg command(s) to run thru a proxy server 
before, and, FWIW, both the help page and man page are not very verbose in this 
area.

hoping someone else has needed to do this previously, and can comment as to 
whether this is the correct direction to go, or if something else is necessary.

Thank you,

Jerry