Ryan de Laplante wrote: [snip] > I'm new to Solaris and the lack of dependency resolution is my biggest > challenge setting up a "clean" server that does what I want. I look > forward to Solaris 11 but it looks like I will have to learn to work > with Solaris 10 package management, or just install the "Entire Group" > and make a lot of that stuff shared with my zones so that the zones are > usable too. > > This thread is off topic for this mailing list so I won't keep it going > any longer.
Just one more email, please! There are some Sun Blueprints which deal with minimising installations of Solaris http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0903/817-3340.pdf Part I: Minimizing Domains for Sun Fire V1280, 6800, 12K, and 15K Systems http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0903/817-3628.pdf Part II: Minimizing Domains for Sun Fire V1280, 6800, 12K, and 15K Systems and earlier, the JASS approach was presented http://www.sun.com/blueprints/browsedate.html#1100 http://www.sun.com/blueprints/1100/jssec-updt1.pdf JumpStart Architecture and Security Scripts for the Solaris Operating Environment - Part 1 http://www.sun.com/blueprints/1100/jssec2-updt1.pdf JumpStart Architecture and Security Scripts for the Solaris Operating Environment - Part 2 http://www.sun.com/blueprints/1100/jssec3-updt1.pdf JumpStart Architecture and Security Scripts for the Solaris Operating Environment - Part 3 Now while these are definitely old articles (and could stand some updating I'm sure) they do present the principles that are in use today in any number of large installations of minimised systems, so I think they're still relevant to your quest, at least until Solaris 11 makes it out the door. best regards, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
