* Alan Chalmers <alan.chalmers at gmail.com> [2009-10-22 11:55]: > I have a number of IPS packages installed on a machine from a IPS > repository that is no longer available. > > I'm looking for some hints on how I might go about recreating the > original IPS packages on my local repository so that I can install > them on other machines on my network. > > I'm sure all the information I need is held on the machine where I > have the packages install I just have no idea how I might extract it.
Manifests are in /var/pkg/pkg/[pkg_stem]/[version]; files are in the filesystem, or in /var/pkg/download if your configuration isn't flushing the download cache on success. You can use these, with a bit of manifest editing (to use paths rather than hashes) or file copying (from the download cache to a temporary directory), to submit the packages to a new, local repository using pkgsend(1). - Stephen -- sch at sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/sch/
