Less known Solaris Features: Installing packages directly from web

Until i´ve finalized my next larger article, i want to give spotlight to a really small, but really useful feature: One relativly unknown feature of recent versions of pkgadd is the ability to load packages directly from web. You just have to specify an URL:

# pkgadd -d http://www.blastwave.org/pkg_get.pkg
## Downloading...<br />
..............25%..............50%..............75%..............100%<br />
## Download Complete
The following packages are available:<br />
  1  CSWpkgget     pkg_get - CSW version of automated package download tool<br />
                   (all) 3.8.4
[..]
Installation of <CSWpkgget> was successful.<br />
# 

That´s all. As the packages just have to be accessible by http, you can use an existing internal webserver to serve your favourite “must-have” extra packages and install them directly from there. Okay, and solves the problem nicely to get started with Blastwave without moving around the pkg_get package via ftp ;)