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Solaris11

Oraclehascompletelychangedpatchingandpackaging
systemonSolaris11,nowit'scallasa(IPS)Image
packagingsystem,wecaninstall,updateandsearch
packagesfromrepositorylocallyorremotely.

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Wecandesignourrepositoryoneofthefollowing

2.RemoterepositoryinInternalnetwork(withinour
localnetwork)

Using Solaris Live Upgrade (LU) to

patch CPU patch cluster. Generally
CPU OS patch cluster will take more
time to complete the patch...

3.Internet(online)repository(http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/)

VXVM Disk group import failed

I have recently encounter DG import
failed issue on one of my
environment and finally resolved as
below. While reboot the server I ...

SomeofthekeyadvantagesofIPSImagepackagingsystem:
1.Itwillcheckandpickupdependencypackageautomaticallywhileinstallingany
packages

How to enable SAR (System Activity

Reporter) on Solaris 10

2.Itwillcreatesautomaticallybackupbootenvironmentwhendemand
3.Itwillallowsyoutoeasilygreptheinformationaboutpackageslikequery,list,update,
install,uninstallthesoftwarepackages.
Let'sdescribethestepstosetuplocalrepository:

This artical about to enable SAR

(System Activity Reporter) on Solaris
10, here I am providing step by step
details to enable it. Some o...
Creating IPS repository on Solaris 11
Oracle has completely changed
patching and packaging system on
Solaris 11, now it's call as a
(IPS)Image packaging system, we can

1)Downloadlatestrepofromoraclewebsite
2)UsuallyitistwopartsISOimage,wehavetocombineittogether
SettingupaLocalIPSrepository:
Combinebothdownloadedrepofilestogether:

root@infravm:/hgfs/Solaris#catsol11_1repofull.isoasol11_1repofu
ll.isob>sol11_1repofull.iso
root@infravm:/hgfs/Solaris#
MounttheISOimageasa/mnt:

root@infravm:/#mountFhsfs/mnt/hgfs/Solaris/sol11repofull.iso/mnt
root@infravm:/#dfh/mnt
FilesystemSizeUsedAvailableCapacityMountedon
/mnt/hgfs/Solaris/sol11_1repofull.iso
6.8G6.8G0K100%/mnt
root@infravm:/#
HereactuallyIdidnotcreateddedicatedfilessystembutifyoucreateseparatepool/FS
itwillgiveyouthegoodperformanceandspaceutilization.

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Copyallthefilesfrom/mnt/repo/toourlocaldirectory/solrepo/:

root@infravm:/#mkdir/solrepo
root@infravm:/#rsyncaP/mnt/repo//solrepo/
sendingincrementalfilelist
createddirectory/solrepo
./
pkg5.repository
242100%0.00kB/s0:00:00
242100%0.00kB/s0:00:00(xfer#1,tocheck=1464/1466)
publisher/
publisher/solaris/
publisher/solaris/catalog/
publisher/solaris/catalog/catalog.attrs
606100%295.90kB/s0:00:00
606100%295.90kB/s0:00:00(xfer#2,tocheck=1455/1466)
publisher/solaris/catalog/catalog.base.C
327685%1.95MB/s0:00:00
619178100%16.87MB/s0:00:00(xfer#3,tocheck=1454/1466)
publisher/solaris/catalog/catalog.dependency.C
327681%711.11kB/s0:00:03
2581594100%17.22MB/s0:00:00(xfer#4,tocheck=1453/1466)
publisher/solaris/catalog/catalog.summary.C
327681%209.15kB/s0:00:07
1698356100%7.57MB/s0:00:00(xfer#5,tocheck=1452/1466)
publisher/solaris/tmp/lock
0100%0.00kB/s0:00:00(xfer#315831,tocheck=0/320497)
publisher/solaris/trans/
sent6932390502bytesreceived6019468bytes6636451.43bytes/sec
totalsizeis6903440144speedupis0.99
root@infravm:/#
UmountISOimagefile/mnt:

root@infravm:/#umount/mnt
root@infravm:/#

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Checktherepo/publisherstatus:

root@infravm:/#pkgpublisher
PUBLISHERTYPESTATUSPLOCATION
solarisoriginonlineFhttp://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/
root@infravm:/#
Unsetupthedefaultpublisher/repo:

root@infravm:/#pkgunsetpublishersolaris
root@infravm:/#
Checktherepo/publisherstatus:

root@infravm:/#pkgpublisher
PUBLISHERTYPESTATUSPLOCATION
root@infravm:/#
Setuplocalrepo/publisher:

root@infravm:/#pkgsetpublishergfile:///solrepo/solaris
Refreshingcatalog1/1solaris

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Refreshingcatalog1/1solaris
Refreshingcatalog1/1solaris
Cachingcatalogs...
root@infravm:/#
Checkthelocalrepo/publisherstatus:

root@infravm:/#pkgpublisher
PUBLISHERTYPESTATUSPLOCATION
solarisoriginonlineFfile:///solrepo/
root@infravm:/#
Checkthestatusofthelocalrepo:

root@infravm:/#pkgrepoinfos/solrepo
PUBLISHERPACKAGESSTATUSUPDATED
solaris4401online20120927T22:22:59.530981Z
root@infravm:/#
Toseeallthepackagesintherepository:

root@infravm:/#pkgsearchpsfile:///solrepo/'*'
PACKAGE
PUBLISHER
pkg:/BRCMbnx@0.5.110.133solaris
pkg:/BRCMbnxe@0.5.110.133solaris
pkg:/CPQary3@0.5.110.133solaris
pkg:/FSWfontconfigdeveldocs@0.5.110.130solaris
pkg:/FSWxorgclientdocs@0.5.110.130solaris
pkg:/FSWxorgclientprograms@0.5.110.130solaris
pkg:/FSWxorgclientlibs@0.5.110.130solaris
pkg:/FSWxorgdata@0.5.110.130solaris
root@infravm:/#
Toseeparticularpackagesintherepository:

root@infravm:/#pkgsearchsfile:///solreposolarisdesktop
INDEXACTIONVALUEPACKAGE
pkg.fmrisetsolaris/group/system/solarisdesktoppkg:/group/system/
solarisdesktop@0.5.110.175.1.0.0.24.3
root@infravm:/#
InstallaPackage:

root@infravm:~#pkginstallsolarisdesktop
Packagestoinstall:370
Createbootenvironment:No
Createbackupbootenvironment:Yes
Servicestochange:14
DOWNLOADPKGSFILESXFER(MB)
SPEED
Completed370/37053216/53216547.3/547.3
0B/s
PHASEITEMS
Installingnewactions84196/85615
commandoutputwas:

drvconfig:modctlfailedtoaddmajornumberbinding.

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Installingnewactions85615/85615
UpdatingpackagestatedatabaseDone
UpdatingimagestateDone
CreatingfastlookupdatabaseDone
root@infravm:~#
SearchforaPackage:

root@infravm:/#pkgsearchWebbrowser
INDEXACTIONVALUEPACKAGE
pkg.summarysetMozillaFirefoxWebbrowser
pkg:/web/browser/firefox@10.0.60.175.1.0.0.22.0
pkg.summarysetMultiUserDesktopoptimizationforMozillaFirefoxWe
bbrowserpkg:/web/browser/firefox/multiuserdesktop@10.0.60.175.1.0.0.
22.0
pkg.summarysetAtextbasedwebbrowser
pkg:/web/browser/w3m@0.5.20.175.0.0.0.0.0
pkg.summarysetTextbasedwebbrowser
pkg:/web/browser/links@1.0.30.175.1.0.0.24.0
pkg.summarysetTextmodewebbrowser
pkg:/web/browser/lynx@2.8.70.175.0.0.0.0.0
root@infravm:/#
SearchforaFile:

root@infravm:/#pkgsearchopath,pkg.namel/usr/bin/vim
PATHPKG.NAME
usr/bin/vimeditor/vim/vimcore
root@infravm:/#
SearchforPackagesthatDependontheSpecified:

root@infravm:~#pkgsearchldepend::editor/vim
INDEXACTIONVALUEPACKAGE
groupdependeditor/vimpkg:/group/system/solar
isdesktop@0.5.110.175.1.0.0.24.3
incorporatedependpkg:/editor/vim@7.3.6000.175.1.0.0.24.0pkg:/consolid
ation/userland/userlandincorporation@0.5.110.175.1.0.0.24.0
optionaldependeditor/vim@7.3.600pkg:/editor/vim/vimcor
e@7.3.6000.175.1.0.0.24.0
requiredependeditor/vim@7.3.600pkg:/editor/gvim@7.3.60
00.175.1.0.0.24.0
root@infravm:~#
IwillwritemorearticleaboutSolaris11soon...
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