On 12/23/11 01:33, Ervin Yan wrote:
Hi, Shawn and Alan:
Really appreciate for your replies.
Since our customers may only need 4 of the packages for basic
> functions, and need not download the whole image from our production
> server, and to provide consistent customer experiences with other
> platforms, we decided to use separate p5p file for different packages,
> like rpm file on Linux, and bff file on AIX.
Ok....
In fact, our own installer script can check the dependencies for our
> product packages, and determine which packages need be installed or
> upgraded, or uninstalled.
Fine.. but you cannot check the OS packages.
So I have one question, does 'pkg install' command have any options
> that it can simply uncompress the p5p archive, install the package
> files, and skip to check dependencies, skip to check publisher
> configurations?
No, because that would result in the machine being in an unsupportable
state, with missing dependencies, etc.
Right now, machines with zones cannot accept archive packages. This is
a bug and is being fixed, but for now you need to create a local
repository from the archive packages (say /tmp/a.p5p, /tmp/b.p5p),
and add that to the publisher configuration.
#create tmp repo
pkgrepo create /tmp/mytmprepo
# copy all the pkgs in /tmp/a.p5p into /tmp/mytmprepo
pkgrecv -s /tmp/a.p5p -d /tmp/mytmprepo '*'
# copy all the pkgs in /tmp/b.p5p into /tmp/mytmprepo
pkgrecv -s /tmp/b.p5p -d /tmp/mytmprepo '*'
# add temporary publisher
pkg set-publisher -p /tmp/mytmprepo
# install all packages from temp repo.
....
In general, I strongly recommend that any ISV providing operating
system components provide a external repo for their customers. It makes
support much simpler, more elegant, and allows you to manage
dependencies properly without having to have the customer
download different packages, etc. This is particularly important if
a new version of the ISV's software is needed for a new version of
Solaris; by making packages for the new version of Solaris available
in a repo that the customer can configure a seamless upgrade can be
achieved.
- Bart
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