On 15 January 2016 at 14:24, John Barfield <[email protected]> wrote: > Well…my understanding is that its best not to install pkgsrc in the GZ. > The GZ should act only as a hypervisor.
I don't think I would single out pkgsrc as being undesirable in the GZ. It's more that _any_ extra software in the GZ should likely be avoided, if possible. Sometimes it's not possible to avoid, though; e.g., if you need an NFS server, or you're monitoring some hardware. In the event that you must install software in the GZ, I would actually _recommend_ that you try our pkgsrc bits first. Of all of the ways to get extra software into the GZ, this is the most likely to function without a lot of work, and most likely to be available in a similar way in the future. This is more of a guideline and it's really intended to reflect the design centre of SmartOS as well as the practical reality that most engineers working on the OS are (obviously) not testing your particular add-ons so they break in the future. If you _do_ have to put software in the global zone, though, I would definitely try to use the pkgsrc bits rather than rolling something custom. > But I would like to have a snapshot software in place for backups so I’m > trying to figure out how best to get it running without pkgsrc. If the software is wholly (or even partly) available via pkgsrc, I would try that first. Cheers. -- Joshua M. Clulow UNIX Admin/Developer http://blog.sysmgr.org ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
