Re: [zones-discuss] installing packages in global zone
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Pete Chan super_...@hotmail.com wrote: Mike thanks for the quick response. It seems that it may be sufficient to add a read-only mount to each zone as you recommended. I'll give that a try. However, now I am curious to know why I dont get a value (true or false) when I run #pkgparam SOMEpackage. When I installed SOMEpackage in the Global i did NOT use the -G option. Based on what i read and your explanation below not having the -G option will automatically install SOMEpackage on all the non-global zones. Are you saying that the developer of SOMEpackage can opt out of entering true or false for SUNW_PKG_THISZONE? In which case that means that the default may be true (even though its not explicit) and thats why SOMEpackage is not propagating to the non-global zones? I apreciate the help and explanations Mike. By default packages will install into all non-global zones that are that native brand. That is, if SUNW_PKG_THISZONE is not set to true, it should install into all native brand (or unbranded, depending on vintage of the OS) zones. Expanding on the assumptions I made earlier... uname -sr in the global zone should say SunOS 5.10. It should say the same in each non-global zone. If you are using Solaris 8/9 Containers then the brand is not native, and the packages will not propagate. Likewise, on OpenSolaris (SunOS 5.11 after SXCE) any non-global zone you have is a non-native (e.g. ipkg, solaris10) branded zone. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [zones-discuss] installing packages in global zone
Mike thanks for the quick response. It seems that it may be sufficient to add a read-only mount to each zone as you recommended. I'll give that a try. However, now I am curious to know why I dont get a value (true or false) when I run #pkgparam SOMEpackage. When I installed SOMEpackage in the Global i did NOT use the -G option. Based on what i read and your explanation below not having the -G option will automatically install SOMEpackage on all the non-global zones. Are you saying that the developer of SOMEpackage can opt out of entering true or false for SUNW_PKG_THISZONE? In which case that means that the default may be true (even though its not explicit) and thats why SOMEpackage is not propagating to the non-global zones? I apreciate the help and explanations Mike. p. Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:33:49 -0500 Subject: Re: installing packages in global zone From: mger...@gmail.com To: super_...@hotmail.com CC: zones-discuss@opensolaris.org This is probably better suited for zones-discuss than security-discuss. I've set the reply accordingly. On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Pete Chan super_...@hotmail.com wrote: hello, i am trying to figure out how to install a package in a global zone under /opt and be able to access the binaries of the package from a non-global zone. in other words the users of these package do not have access to the global zone and only have access to the non-global. How do I propagate this installation to the non-global zone? The answer varies depending on whether you are running Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris. I'll assume you are running Solaris 10 in my answer. When you run a command like pkgadd -d . SOMEpackage in the global zone, the default behavior is that the package will automatically be installed in all non-global zones as well. This behavior can be changed via the -G option to pkgadd, which will cause it to install only in the global zone. If the developer that created SOMEpackage put SUNW_PKG_THIS_ZONE=true in the pkginfo file (SOMEpackage/pkginfo), then it will not automatically be installed in all of the non-global zones. In such a case, you will need to install the package in each zone individually. It may be sufficient to add a read-only lofs mount to each zone instead of installing it in all zones. That is, zonecfg -z zone1 add fs set special=/opt/SOMEpackage set dir=/opt/SOMEpackage set options=ro end verify commit exit Then reboot the zone or issue the appropriate mkdir and mount -F lofs -o ro ... commands to create the lofs mounts without rebooting. If you are on OpenSolaris (with the pkg command, not ancient SXCE which will act like Solaris 10) you will need to install the software in all zones that require it. The new way of doing things breaks the strong ties between software selection in the global zone and all non-global zones. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [zones-discuss] installing packages in global zone
This is probably better suited for zones-discuss than security-discuss. I've set the reply accordingly. On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Pete Chan super_...@hotmail.com wrote: hello, i am trying to figure out how to install a package in a global zone under /opt and be able to access the binaries of the package from a non-global zone. in other words the users of these package do not have access to the global zone and only have access to the non-global. How do I propagate this installation to the non-global zone? The answer varies depending on whether you are running Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris. I'll assume you are running Solaris 10 in my answer. When you run a command like pkgadd -d . SOMEpackage in the global zone, the default behavior is that the package will automatically be installed in all non-global zones as well. This behavior can be changed via the -G option to pkgadd, which will cause it to install only in the global zone. If the developer that created SOMEpackage put SUNW_PKG_THIS_ZONE=true in the pkginfo file (SOMEpackage/pkginfo), then it will not automatically be installed in all of the non-global zones. In such a case, you will need to install the package in each zone individually. It may be sufficient to add a read-only lofs mount to each zone instead of installing it in all zones. That is, zonecfg -z zone1 add fs set special=/opt/SOMEpackage set dir=/opt/SOMEpackage set options=ro end verify commit exit Then reboot the zone or issue the appropriate mkdir and mount -F lofs -o ro ... commands to create the lofs mounts without rebooting. If you are on OpenSolaris (with the pkg command, not ancient SXCE which will act like Solaris 10) you will need to install the software in all zones that require it. The new way of doing things breaks the strong ties between software selection in the global zone and all non-global zones. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
[zones-discuss] Installing packages
Hi, I was wondering if it is possible install packages from sun, say secure global desktop into opensolaris 2009.6 zone with pkg? Or do I need to install the provided package by sun on global-zone by using pkgadd? I created a non-global zone to install the package and svr4 pkgadd seems to be missing. So in this case, I decided to use pkg install but did not seem to be going anywhere. Any ideas? Thanks... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [zones-discuss] Installing packages
Hi, Not tested but pkg install SUNWpkgcmds to install the svr4 package tools and then pkgadd for the svr4 packages inside the zone should do the trick regards Bernd deniz rende wrote: Hi, I was wondering if it is possible install packages from sun, say secure global desktop into opensolaris 2009.6 zone with pkg? Or do I need to install the provided package by sun on global-zone by using pkgadd? I created a non-global zone to install the package and svr4 pkgadd seems to be missing. So in this case, I decided to use pkg install but did not seem to be going anywhere. Any ideas? Thanks... -- Bernd Schemmer, Frankfurt am Main, Germany http://bnsmb.de/ M s temprano que tarde el mundo cambiar . Fidel Castro ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
