On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 18:23 -0700, Peter Taps wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I need to build a minimal OpenSolaris system for our appliance. We just need 
> to install a GUI on the appliance. Just the command line interface is enough.
> 
> I found two articles that list the minimal packages required:
> 
> Lessons with OpenSolaris appliance by Jignesh Shah:
> http://blogs.sun.com/jkshah/entry/lessons_with_opensolaris_appliances
> 
> Minimal Solaris by Alexander Eremin:
> http://alexeremin.blogspot.com/2008/12/minimum-opensolaris-200811-install.html
> 
> The list of packages are not exactly the same between the two. I am trying to 
> understand the ones that are really needed. However, I cannot find any 
> explanation for the packages. For example, what is SUNWcs package? 
> 
> There are many such packages that I don't understand. I would appreciate your 
> help in pointing me to where I can find a one line summary of each of the 
> packages. I did look at pkg.opensolaris.org. However, when you search for 
> SUNWcs, you get a ton of hits but none of them matches SUNWcs package 
> directly.
> 
> Regards,
> Peter

~ pkg info  SUNWcs
          Name: SUNWcs
       Summary: Core Solaris
   Description: core software for a specific instruction-set
architecture
      Category: System/Core
         State: Installed
     Publisher: opensolaris.org
       Version: 0.5.11
 Build Release: 5.11
        Branch: 0.134
Packaging Date: March  2, 2010 12:54:46 AM 
          Size: 25.19 MB
          FMRI:
pkg://opensolaris.org/[email protected],5.11-0.134:20100302T005446Z


Don't ignore packages with "Core" in description )

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