Thanks for the reply Alan. I will go through the link. >> It has nothing to do with package creation - it creates a place you can >> install packages to. Yes, the man page gave me that indication. What I am trying to find out is: 1. Why would I want to do that? 2. Having installed packages to the image, what next? Where do I use it? Do I create a boot environment out of it? Does it help me create an image that I could leverage as a local zone? I will try to find the answers to such questions in the link that you have provided. Will let you know if I find it (or if I am not).
Thanks for your time! ~Amol. -----Original Message----- From: Alan Coopersmith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 10:49 PM To: Vaikar, Amol Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [pkg-discuss] Question regarding # pkg image-create On 01/22/13 08:24 AM, Vaikar, Amol wrote: > I had tried to ask this question as a continuation to this thread: > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/pkg-discuss/2011-February/025606.html > Looks like a different unrelated thread has been started though. Trying to attach to a several year old thread is not a great idea even if it had worked. Much has changed in the past couple years. For instance, the one line you quoted: >> We do not yet have the developer documentation written as yet is no longer true - the developer documentation was written and published over a year ago, you can find the latest version at: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26502_01/html/E21383/index.html > Like Imran has asked in his original query, what exactly can I do with the > image once I've created it using the command. > Where & how does it help me? > Does it help me to create a package of my own? It has nothing to do with package creation - it creates a place you can install packages to. > I read somewhere (...) that pkg image-create was equivalent to Debian's `dpkg > -build` Not even close. The closest I see in the dpkg(8) man page would be creating a new directory for use with dpkg --root. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
