With the push I just finished for 6525 and 5780 the default pkg authority for installed AI clients (both sparc and x86) is now changed to http://pkg.opensolaris.org/release. For testing, you'll want to change that post-installation (so that you're not trying to run 2008.11) via:
pfexec pkg set-authority -O http://ipkg.sfbay/dev Also, when generating AI images for sparc you'll need to modify ai_sparc_image.xml (located in usr/share/distro_const/auto_install/ai_sparc_image.xml) and change: <pkg_repo_default_authority> <main url="http://pkg.opensolaris.org/release" authname="opensolaris.org"/> <!-- to: <pkg_repo_default_authority> <main url="http://ipkg.sfbay/dev" authname="opensolaris.org"/> <!-- so that you're pulling the latest sparc packages instead of what's available in the release repo. Naturally, once we actually ship 2009.06 none of this will be necessary. Thanks, -- Glenn