Create Local Repository - Solaris 11.2

Image packaging system(IPS) and important concept from Solaris 11 onwards. I would like to create local repository on the local system by downloading the files from the Oracle website using oracle's automated script.

Download below files and copy to your local Solaris server.

Below are the files copied on my local Solaris server. 

root@solnode1:/var/share/pkg# pwd

/var/share/pkg

root@solnode1:/var/share/pkg# ls -l

total 14373953

-rwx------   1 root     root        5594 Aug 29 20:52 install-repo.ksh

drwxr-xr-x   3 pkg5srv  pkg5srv        7 Aug 30 08:42 repositories

-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     1771800121 Aug 29 15:32 sol-11_2-repo-1of4.zip

-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     1889867782 Aug 29 15:35 sol-11_2-repo-2of4.zip

-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     1902167161 Aug 29 16:46 sol-11_2-repo-3of4.zip

-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     1790358735 Aug 29 16:44 sol-11_2-repo-4of4.zip

-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         227 Aug 29 16:14 sol-11_2-repo-md5sums.txt

root@solnode1:/var/share/pkg#

root@solnode1:/var/share/pkg#./install-repo.ksh -d /var/share/pkg/repositories/ -v -c

The script would compare the checksums of the downloaded files, uncompress and would initiate the repository creation. 

your current publisher would be pointing to "pkg.oracle.com" and it needs to be changed to your local repository. 

root@solnode1:~# pkg publisher

PUBLISHER                   TYPE     STATUS P LOCATION

solaris                     origin   online F http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/

root@solnode1:~#

root@solnode1:~# pkg set-publisher -G '*' -M '*' -g file:///var/share/pkg/repositories solaris

root@solnode1:~#

root@solnode1:~# pkg publisher

PUBLISHER                   TYPE     STATUS P LOCATION

solaris                     origin   online F file:///var/share/pkg/repositories/

root@solnode1:~#

To enable clients to access the local repository via HTTP, enable the application/pkg/server Service Management Facility (SMF) service.

root@solnode1:~# svccfg -s application/pkg/server setprop pkg/inst_root=/var/share/pkg/repositories

root@solnode1:~# 

check does repos work

root@solnode1:~# svcprop -p pkg/inst_root application/pkg/server

/var/share/pkg/repositories

root@solnode1:~#

Reload the pkg.depotd repository service.

root@solnode1:~# svcadm refresh application/pkg/server

root@solnode1:~#

we had successfully created solaris 11.2 local repository.