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Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook

By : Borges
Book Image

Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook

By: Borges

Overview of this book

If you are a Solaris administrator who wants to learn more about administering an Oracle Solaris system and want to go a level higher in utilizing the advanced features of Oracle Solaris, then this book is for you. A working knowledge of Solaris Administration is assumed.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
10
Index

Chapter 1. IPS and Boot Environments

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Determining the current package publisher
  • Listing and collecting the information and dependencies of a package
  • Installing a package, verifying its content, and fixing the package corruption
  • Managing the IPS history and freezing and uninstalling packages
  • Discovering the IPS Package Manager interface
  • Creating, activating, and destroying a boot environment
  • Listing and renaming a boot environment
  • Configuring an IPS local repository
  • Configuring a secondary IPS local repository
  • Publishing packages into a repository
  • Adding big applications into a repository
  • Creating your own package and publishing it
  • Managing an IPS publisher on Solaris 11
  • Pinning publishers
  • Changing the URI and enabling and disabling a publisher
  • Creating a mirror repository
  • Removing a repository and changing the search order
  • Listing and creating a boot environment
  • Mounting, unmounting, installing, and uninstalling a package in an inactive boot environment
  • Activating a boot environment
  • Creating a boot environment from an existing one