[pkg-discuss] OS for IPS mirror site??

Tom Mueller (plain-text) Tom.Mueller at Sun.COM
Thu Aug 20 07:19:47 PDT 2009


Ben Wu wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> According to the howto of setting up IPS repos mirror, it looks like 
> the OS need to be OpenSolaris as well. Is there any other OS 
> alternatives to be the IPS mirror? Is FreeBSD supported?
>
The multi-platform version of IPS supports Windows, Linux, Solaris, and 
Mac OS X. We have not tested using it as a mirror for OpenSolaris, but 
AFAIK there isn't any reason why it wouldn't work for that. Binary 
downloads are available here:

http://wikis.sun.com/display/IpsBestPractices/Downloads

Tom




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