I just set up an ipkg zone real quick at 3:00AM this morning and it does seem to be working ok although it was going at an astoundingly slow rate:
r...@solarisunix:~# zoneadm -z tempzone install A ZFS file system has been created for this zone. Authority: Using http://pkg.opensolaris.org/release/. Image: Preparing at /zone2/tempzone/root ... done. Cache: Using /var/pkg/download. Installing: (output follows) DOWNLOAD PKGS FILES XFER (MB) SUNWvim 13/55 3941/8019 20.21/72.90 Like I said, it is installing very, very, verrrrryyyyy slllllowwwwwwlllllllyyyyy, but that's IPS for ya. I've been hoping and praying for at least a year now that they'll figure out a way to have the global zone automatically be the default IPS package repository for the non-global ipkg zones, that way the packages could be installed using the gigabit ethernet between zones in Project Crossbow or with a zfs clone of the existing packages. It hasn't happened yet, so I guess we're stuck in the awkward position of having to download gigabytes of redundant packages from Sun's network repository every time we want to install a new zone when we have already downloaded these packages once before and already installed them in the global zone. It's such a waste both of my bandwidth and of Sun's bandwidth having to download these same packages over and over and over again (not too mention that it's a big waste of my time too) when with all these amazing new features like Crossbow and ZFS it should be totally unnecessary to do so if the ipkg system was designed from the outset to be more scalable and to make a more efficient use of bandwidth, time, and other valuable customer resources. Overall, hosting a large number ipkg zones in their current default installed form is very bad news for those of us who have to pay a monthly bill for the bandwidth usage on our servers. The current way of having to download everything over and over and over again is just not scalable at all :-( Does anybody here know step by step instructions for how to set up an IPS repository in the global zone and then have the non-global zones use it for their installation? I think being able to do this would solve at least 80% of the problems that OpenSolaris users are having with IPS. Thanks. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
