I just set up an ipkg zone real quick and it does seem to be working ok: root at 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
It is installing very, very, verrrrryyyyy slllllowwwwwwlllllyyy, 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 ipkg package repository for the non-global zones, that way the packages could be installed using the 10 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 when I already downloaded these packages once before and already installed them in the global zone :-( -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
