On 15 February 2010 22:07, Nathan Kroenert <nathan.kroenert at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>> Thanks also to Gavin for making repo images available. Expect to see that >> facility again for future meetings. There's a wrinkle here. While the fortnightly OpenSolaris /dev builds are released via the usual repo servers, the corresponding repo images are only released for the full OpenSolaris releases - 2008.11 etc. Apparently this is to do with legal review - a full legal review is prohibitive, and would give too much dosh to lawyers! >> This month, we will have the long awaited Sun Ops Centre discussion, >> (including a demo on a working system doing provisioning etc) and a session >> by Gavin on building your own repo servers from scratch, including being >> able to serve the package metadata. Yes - that's right. You can build your >> own repo, so you never need to pull the same data twice again. :) Wooooo! Since the next full OpenSolaris release is getting pretty close this is still relevant - i.e., it should, I believe, include repo images and I can show how to set them up. >> ? - UpdateFest with a local repository / Optionally, depending >> ? ? on how cavaleer you are feeling, a minimalist installfest... ;) Yep, we can do that - my laptop can serve as a local repo server. We have to stick to the same release as is already available on pkg.opensolaris.org/dev - 132 at the mo. >> ? ? Be sure to bring your USB disks or other preferred storage device. >> >> ? ? If it's an NTFS filesystem, also bring a windows laptop... ;) >> ? ? (We can copy onto NTFS through opensolaris, but the FUSE >> ? ? implementation is pretty slow... ;) ... but we can't distribute repo images, unfortunately. Cheers Gavin
