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