On 01/23/13 00:41, Vaikar, Amol wrote:
Thanks for the reply Alan. I will go through the link.
It has nothing to do with package creation - it creates a place
you can install packages to.
Yes, the man page gave me that indication. What I am trying to find
out is: 1. Why would I want to do that?
So that you can maintain a separate set of software or for testing purposes.
2. Having installed packages to the image, what next? Where do I use
image-create prepares a place where you can install and update packages.
What you do with it is up to you.
it? Do I create a boot environment out of it? Does it help me create
You can't easily create a boot environment out of it; image-create is
not generally useful to most end users.
an image that I could leverage as a local zone? I will try to find
It does not help with zone creation.
In general, you should ignore image-create unless you are a package
maintainer or OS distribution maintainer.
-Shawn
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