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