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Copying and Creating Oracle Solaris 11.1 Package Repositories     Oracle Solaris 11.1 Information Library
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Preface

1.  Image Packaging System Package Repositories

Local IPS Repositories

Prepare the Repository Host System

System Requirements

Repository Management Privileges

Creating a ZFS Dataset

2.  Copying IPS Package Repositories

3.  Providing Access To Your Repository

4.  Maintaining Your Local IPS Package Repository

Local IPS Repositories

You might want a local IPS repository for the following reasons:

IPS supports two types of repositories: origin repositories and mirror repositories. To achieve the performance and security goals mentioned above, the local repository you create should be an origin repository. An origin repository contains all of the metadata (such as catalogs, manifests, and search indexes) and content (files) for one or more packages. A mirror repository contains only package content (files). Clients that install and update packages from a mirror repository must still download metadata from an origin repository. IPS clients access the origin to obtain a publisher's catalog, even when the clients download package content from a mirror.

Both of the repository copying methods discussed in this document create an origin repository. An origin repository is implicitly created when you use the pkgrecv command to copy a package repository, and the repository ISO files provided by Oracle provide an origin repository.