Adding big applications into a repository
Some professionals might wonder whether it is possible to insert complex applications into repositories. Sure! For example, let's take the Storage Foundation and Veritas Cluster Server High Availability Solutions (both are available in version 6.01 at the time of this writing).
Getting ready
To follow this recipe, it's necessary that we have a machine (physical or virtual) running Oracle Solaris 11; we log in to the system as the root user and open a terminal. Additionally, the system must have access to the Internet, some extra space on the disk, and packages of Storage Foundation and Veritas Cluster Server High Availability Solutions, which can be downloaded from http://www.symantec.com/products-solutions/trialware/?pcid=recently_released#. The tarball is named VRTS_SF_HA_Solutions_6.0.1_Solaris_x64.tar.gz, and it is composed by Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0.1 and Veritas Cluster Server 6.0.1. You can install them in keyless mode for 60 days to try it out.
How to do it…
After downloading the tarball into the home directory (/root), we extract it:
root@solaris11:~# mkdir SFHA601 root@solaris11:~# mv VRTS_SF_HA_Solutions_6.0.1_Solaris_x64.tar.gz SFHA601 root@solaris11:~# cd SFHA601/ root@solaris11:~/SFHA601# ls VRTS_SF_HA_Solutions_6.0.1_Solaris_x64.tar.gz root@solaris11:~/SFHA601# tar zxvf VRTS_SF_HA_Solutions_6.0.1_Solaris_x64.tar.gz root@solaris11:~/SFHA601# cd dvd2-sol_x64/sol11_x64/pkgs root@solaris11:~/SFHA601/dvd2-sol_x64/sol11_x64/pkgs# ls info VRTSpkgs.p5p
In the next step, we find out which packages are included in the Storage Foundation HA application. Then, to list its contents, we execute the following:
root@solaris11:~# pkg list -g /root/SFHA601/dvd2-sol_x64/sol11_x64/pkgs/VRTSpkgs.p5p
NAME (PUBLISHER) VERSION IFO
VRTSamf (Symantec) 6.0.100.0 ---
VRTSaslapm (Symantec) 6.0.100.0 ---
VRTScavf (Symantec) 6.0.100.0 ---
VRTScps (Symantec) 6.0.100.0 ---
VRTSdbac (Symantec) 6.0.100.0 ---
VRTSdbed (Symantec) 6.0.100.0 ---
VRTSfssdk (Symantec) 6.0.100.0 ---
VRTSgab (Symantec) 6.0.100.0 ---
VRTSglm (Symantec) 6.0.100.0 ---
VRTSgms (Symantec) 6.0.100.0 ---
VRTSllt (Symantec) 6.0.100.0 ---
VRTSodm (Symantec) 6.0.100.0 ---
VRTSperl (Symantec) 5.14.2.5 ---
VRTSsfcpi601 (Symantec) 6.0.100.0 ---
VRTSsfmh (Symantec) 5.0.196.0 ---
VRTSspt (Symantec) 6.0.100.0 ---
VRTSsvs (Symantec) 6.0.100.0 ---
VRTSvbs (Symantec) 6.0.100.0 ---
VRTSvcs (Symantec) 6.0.100.0 ---
VRTSvcsag (Symantec) 6.0.100.0 ---
VRTSvcsea (Symantec) 6.0.100.0 ---
VRTSvlic (Symantec) 3.2.61.4 ---
VRTSvxfen (Symantec) 6.0.100.0 ---
VRTSvxfs (Symantec) 6.0.100.0 ---
VRTSvxvm (Symantec) 6.0.100.0 ---We already know the content of the SFHA 6.0.1 software, and in the next step, we create a publisher named Symantec that has /root/SFHA601/dvd2-sol_x64/sol11_x64/pkgs/VRTSpkgs.p5p/ as the repository location:
root@solaris11:~/SFHA601/dvd2-sol_x64/sol11_x64/pkgs# pkg set-publisher -p /root/SFHA601/dvd2-sol_x64/sol11_x64/pkgs/VRTSpkgs.p5p Symantec
pkg set-publisher:
Added publisher(s): SymantecOn listing the existing repositories, we're able to see the new repository:
root@solaris11:~# pkg publisher
PUBLISHER TYPE STATUS P LOCATION
solaris origin online F http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/
solarisstudio origin online F https://pkg.oracle.com/solarisstudio/release/
training origin online F http://localhost:8888/
Symantec origin online F file:///root/SFHA601/dvd2-sol_x64/sol11_x64/pkgs/VRTSpkgs.p5p/Moreover, it might come in handy to collect further information about this new repository named Symantec:
root@solaris11:~# pkgrepo get -p Symantec -s /root/SFHA601/dvd2-sol_x64/sol11_x64/pkgs/VRTSpkgs.p5p/
PUBLISHER SECTION PROPERTY VALUE
Symantec publisher alias
Symantec publisher prefix Symantec
Symantec repository collection-type core
Symantec repository description ""
Symantec repository legal-uris ()
Symantec repository mirrors ()
Symantec repository name ""
Symantec repository origins ()
Symantec repository refresh-seconds ""
Symantec repository registration-uri ""
Symantec repository related-uris ()Brilliant! A new publisher named Symantec has come up, which points to /root/SFHA601/dvd2-sol_x64/sol11_x64/pkgs/VRTSpkgs.p5p/. After all this work, we can install Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas Filesystem Packages. However, this is not the usual method to install Symantec Storage Foundation HA because Symantec recommends using the installer or installsfha script, which is contained inside a DVD. By the way, the following command is necessary to initiate the installation:
root@solaris11:~# pkg install –accept VRTSvxvm VRTSvxfs
The --accept keyword needs to comply with the Symantec license.
Note that the repository (and its respective packages) we just made and configured as a publisher named Symantec is not available for network access, and unfortunately, it is not enough for our purposes. However, it's relatively easy to make all these Symantec packages available through our previous training publisher; let's do this with the following command:
root@solaris11:~# pkgrecv -s /root/SFHA601/dvd2-sol_x64/sol11_x64/pkgs/VRTSpkgs.p5p/ -d /repo_pool/training_repo/publisher/training/ '*' Processing packages for publisher Symantec ... Retrieving and evaluating 25 package(s)... PROCESS ITEMS GET (MB) SEND (MB) Completed 25/25 353.4/353.4 1064/1064 root@solaris11:~# pkgrepo info -s /repo_pool/training_repo PUBLISHER PACKAGES STATUS UPDATED training 27 online 2013-10-23T10:39:27.872059Z root@solaris11:~# svcadm refresh pkg/server:training root@solaris11:~# svcadm restart pkg/server:training
Again, we can check these uploaded packages by going to the URL, http://localhost:8888/en/catalog.shtml:
An overview of the recipe
This procedure is almost identical to the previous one, but we've tried to make things more practical. Moreover, Veritas Storage Foundation and Veritas Cluster Server are well-known programs, the value of which has already been proved with the response received from the market. Another good takeaway from this example is that Symantec provides a little database package (VRTSpkgs.p5p) to help us create the appropriate repository that contains all the package references.
