I am working on a project where I intend to provision many OpenSolaris machines using the AI and would like to be able to operate in an offline mode. Logically I would say I need a "mirror" of the pkg.opensolaris.org repository. Ideally the "mirror" would be completely independent of the pkg.opensolaris.org repository and I could manually execute a synchronization command. With a model such as this I can keep all of the OpenSolaris provisioned nodes "up-to-date" with my mirror without having to worry about unintended package updates. In the near term I minimally need to have the binaries cached locally as even deploying 5 machines simultaneously will saturate my connection to the internet to the point were it would take a couple of hours to do the install. So I have the following questions about my situation:
1) Will there be functionality in the IPS repo to support my scenario? 2) What would be the best way to address my short term goals? 3) Should I look at a combination of AI and Distribution Constructor? Thanks, Cameron Brunner
