On 07/26/10 11:37 PM, Gary Pennington wrote:
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:54:24PM -0700, Sunay Tripathi wrote:
Guys,
I think we had discussed allowing a ipkg brand zone to be installed
without a network i.e. going to a repo if I already have a installed
system running. Can someone tell the correct options? I am trying
the -d option but that fails ...
# zoneadm -z test install -d /
pkg list: no packages matching 'entire' installed
you must specify -u (sys-unconfig) or -p (preserve identity).
brand-specific usage:
install {-a archive|-d path} {-p|-u} [-s|-v]
I surmise that your test system no longer has the 'entire' package, probably
because you have used onu on it. The procedure for creating the zone
depends on locating the 'entire' package, so it is failing because it can't
locate it. (onu removes the entire package.)
You could re-install 'entire'...
Kinda hard since I can only use external repositories. I compiled
one of the newer builds and thats what I am running so can't install
entire from b134. Is there a workaround or its just not possible
to create a zone?
This kind of problem makes me wonder if (in the future) we need an
enhancement which allows a user to specify exactly which packages/
incorporations should be installed into a zone, rather than just assuming it
will be entire. Something like
zoneadm -z test install -d / -t MyOwnIncorporation,MyOtherIncorporation
(-t for 'target packge', I can't suggest -p because it is already used.)
That would be nice. BTW, if -d / is specified, you could look into
/var/pkg and pretty much get all the packages already installed in gz
and just use that. I don't know enough of pkg internal structure but
there must be a catalog (of installed packages) somewhere which
should all be available in /var/pkg/*
I just noticed
"Bug 14684 - zone attach incorporation logic needs enhancement"
as well. How were you planning on fixing it?
It would, of course, be the user's responsibilty to make sure that this
list of packages resulted in a bootable zone (although we could also
process the list to guarantee it was a useful/bootable zone.).
Can't find the ipkg manpage also. BTW, it would be good to allow
a equivalent of native zone to be created without much fuss :) and
perhaps the default should be along those lines (instead of
needing a repo).
man ipkg(5)
Ah.. For a change Dr. google doesn't have the answer but the manpage
is on the system :)
Cheers,
Sunay
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