Hi, started to test zone installs on S11X (i.e. IPS pkgs). I noticed, that it install a pretty minimal set of packages - nice (since we have no sparse zones anymore :()!!!
However, some often needed packages (e.g. gnu-sed, sendmail, tcsh, ipfilter, java/runtime, java/jdk) are not in this set. So we need to post-install it. Doing this (pkg -R /rpool/zones/$zname/root install ...) I noticed, that it always downloads these add. pkgs from oracle (~ 85 MB), and doesn't care, whether the cache in the global zone already has them. This is IMHO pretty dumb and actually means, that I can't setup a zone, when I need it, because I might be offline/on GPRS/slow DSL/foreign zone; beside the non-sense to download the same packages several times. So the question: Is there a way to tell zonecfg, what add. pkgs it should install (and thus automatically fetches it from the global zones' cache) or alternative and probably more useful: a way to tell pkg, that it should use /var/pkg for cache lookups, downloads instead of the default (i.e. /rpool/zones/$zname/root/var/pkg for the example above)? Regards, jel. PS: Wrt. zone manual: It should explicitly state, that now - in contrast to previous Nevada/S10 versions - only C locale "gets installed" and thus /etc/sysidcfg files with a different default locale (e.g. system_locale=en_US) cause an error (which in turn results in ignoring this file completely)... -- Otto-von-Guericke University http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/ Department of Computer Science Geb. 29 R 027, Universitaetsplatz 2 39106 Magdeburg, Germany Tel: +49 391 67 12768 _______________________________________________ install-discuss mailing list install-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss
