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