[indiana-discuss] [pkg-discuss] pkg & zones

[Robert Milkowski]

Hello Robert,

Is there any documentation/blog/... on a design/rationaly behind ipkg
zones?



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 Robert Milkowski                            mailto:milek at task.gda.pl
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Wednesday, September 3, 2008, 10:44:47 AM, you wrote:

RM> Hello pkg-discuss,


RM> I created a new test zone on OS b96.

RM> I was surprised that during zone install packages were being
RM> downloaded from repository rather then doing local copy.

RM> Then the package list is entirely different than the one in a global
RM> zone (much smaller by default).

RM> Zone is a whole root zone by default (somehow I have a feeling there's
RM> no choice).

RM> How does it work with image updates in global zone?






RM> milek at milek-desktop:~# zonecfg -z test export
RM> create -b
RM> set zonepath=/zones/test
RM> set brand=ipkg
RM> set autoboot=false
RM> set ip-type=shared
RM> milek at milek-desktop:~#


RM> milek at milek-desktop:~# zoneadm -z test install
RM> A ZFS file system has been created for this zone.
RM>   Authority: Using http://pkg.opensolaris.org:80/.
RM>       Image: Preparing at /zones/test/root ... done.
RM>  Installing: (output follows)
RM> DOWNLOAD                                    PKGS       FILES     XFER (MB)
RM> Completed                                  51/51   7873/7873 209.19/209.19

RM> PHASE                                        ACTIONS
RM> Install Phase                            12962/12962
RM> PHASE                                          ITEMS
RM> Reading Existing Index                           8/8
RM> Indexing Packages                              51/51

RM>        Note: Man pages can be obtained by installing SUNWman
RM> Postinstall: Copying SMF seed repository ... done.
RM> Postinstall: Working around
RM> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=681
RM> Postinstall: Working around
RM> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=741
RM>        Done: Installation completed in 530.337 seconds.

RM>  Next Steps: Boot the zone, then log into the zone console
RM>              (zlogin -C) to complete the configuration process
RM> milek at milek-desktop:~#