Dave, Thanks for the quick response. Do you know of any plans for adding the metadata and remote search capabilities to the mirror for cases where the OpenSolaris nodes do not have access to the Internet?
Thanks, Cameron Dave Miner wrote: > 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
