Cameron Brunner wrote: > 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?
I'd recommend starting with http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/pkg/Mirroring/ Dave
