I have a few OpenIndiana servers now, at home and at work. I've been working hard on clustering lately. To help with my work, in both places I'm busy setting up a local repository, something I can update periodically and then use it to update all my servers and containers. I've had a lot of success with a local http-replicator cache for Gentoo, and I hope this will prove useful as well. I'm not all that familiar with IPS anyway, so anything I can learn here would be useful. I sometimes miss the simplicity of SVR4 packages but they never added the features the other distributions were busy pioneering.
Based on some documentation I've been reading, to create the repository on my local machine, in a data zpool that I'd already created:
mkdir /data/pkg/dev
pkgrepo create /data/pkg/dev
pkgrecv -s http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev/ -d /data/pkg/dev '*'
pkgrepo rebuild -s /data/pkg/dev
To set up the dev pkg.depotd server:
svccfg -s pkg/server add dev
svccfg -s pkg/server:dev addpg pkg application
svccfg -s pkg/server:dev setprop pkg/port=10081
svccfg -s pkg/server:dev setprop pkg/inst_root=/data/pkg/dev
svccfg -s pkg/server:dev addpg general framework
svccfg -s pkg/server:dev addpropvalue general/complete astring: dev
svccfg -s pkg/server:dev addpropvalue general/enabled boolean: true
svccfg -s pkg/server:dev setprop pkg/readonly=true
svccfg -s pkg/server:dev setprop pkg/threads=100
Some of these commands are borrowed from Solaris 11 instructions. I still need to look up some of these properties and find out if they are documented. Before today I had only seen the pkg/port, pkg/inst_root and pkg/readonly properties.
To enable it:
svcadm refresh application/pkg/server:dev
svcadm enable application/pkg/server:dev
After all the depot servers are up and running, I added this to the /etc/apache2/2.2/conf/proxy.conf file:
ProxyRequests Off
ProxyVia Block
ProxyStatus On
ProxyPreserveHost Off
ProxyPass /dev http://pkg.example.com:10081 nocanon
ProxyPass /sfe http://pkg.example.com:10082 nocanon
ProxyPass /sfe-encumbered http://pkg.example.com:10083 nocanon
ProxyPass /local http://pkg.example.com:10084 nocanon
ProxyPass /legacy http://pkg.example.com:10085 nocanon AllowEncodedSlashes NoDecode
After that is done, you need to set up the clients to use it. To replace the openindiana.org publisher:
pkg set-publisher -G '*' -g http://pkg.example.com/dev/ openindiana.org
pkg refresh --full
After that, I was able to do 'pkg update' as expected. I was able to mirror dev, sfe, sfe-encumbered and legacy without much trouble.
Now that I have that, I've created a local repository for development. This will be fun. I am wondering how to feed back some packages to the community. I should probably ask.