Configuring a Packaging server !!!

Package Administration is so easy with the help of SRU's (Support Repository Update).
Either we can directly access the SRU through https://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/support/

OR

we can copy the iso file and can configure any server a packaging server through which we can access the repo from any client server.
 
To use this repo we create a publisher on our packaging server and will be shared across network.

Let us see how to configure packaging server.

We need the iso of SRU, copy it to our packaging server and take a sync of it.Then create publisher basing on the location of sync...

root-mysrv1:/#
root-mysrv1:/# cd /opt
root-mysrv1:/#
root-mysrv1:/opt# ls -lrth
total 9720689
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root          11 Nov 17  2010 145880-02
drwxr-xr-x   4 root     root           5 Jun  1  2011 OVM_Server_SPARC-2_1
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        2.7G Nov  7  2012 sol-11-1111-sru13-04-incr-repo.iso       ------ this is my sru iso file...
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     root         90K Nov 21  2012 readme.html
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     root         73K Nov 21  2012 readme.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        2.0G May 12  2013 p15879286_1100_SOLARIS64.zip
root-mysrv1:/opt#
root-mysrv1:/opt# cd /
root-mysrv1:/#
root-mysrv1:/# mount -F hsfs /opt/sol-11-1111-sru13-04-incr-repo.iso /mnt                 
root-mysrv1:/#
root-mysrv1:/#
root-mysrv1:/# cd /mnt
root-mysrv1:/mnt#
root-mysrv1:/mnt# ls -lrth
total 20
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root        2.0K Nov  7  2012 repo
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        1.3K Nov  7  2012 NOTICES
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        3.2K Nov  7  2012 COPYRIGHT
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        3.0K Nov  7  2012 README
root-mysrv1:/mnt#
root-mysrv1:/mnt#
root-mysrv1:/mnt# cd /
root-mysrv1:/#
root-mysrv1:/# pkg publisher
PUBLISHER                             TYPE     STATUS   URI
root-mysrv1:/#
root-mysrv1:/# rsync -aP /mnt/repo /export/repoSolaris11
sending incremental file list
created directory /export/repoSolaris11
repo/
repo/pkg5.repository
         300 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#1, to-check=1235/1237)
repo/publisher/
repo/publisher/solaris/
repo/publisher/solaris/catalog/
repo/publisher/solaris/catalog/catalog.attrs
         732 100%  714.84kB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#2, to-check=1226/1237)
repo/publisher/solaris/catalog/catalog.base.C
       61715 100%  119.82kB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#3, to-check=1225/1237)
repo/publisher/solaris/catalog/catalog.dependency.C
      682512 100%    1.18MB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#4, to-check=1224/1237)
repo/publisher/solaris/catalog/catalog.summary.C
      287490 100%  490.83kB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#5, to-check=1223/1237)
repo/publisher/solaris/catalog/update.20121107T00Z.C
     1079095 100%    1.53MB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#6, to-check=1222/1237)
repo/publisher/solaris/file/
repo/publisher/solaris/file/00/
repo/publisher/solaris/file/00/00001904e440b8c2a7733ce4bb65e9f8edde72b6
        5841 100%    7.61kB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#7, to-check=1615/1887)
repo/publisher/solaris/file/00/00001d488d4978cfd1776ce8da5b284b3349ab49
       10419 100%   13.55kB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#8, to-check=1614/1887)
repo/publisher/solaris/file/00/0000700262b4d3c65f457dbcae41beafe04956ed
       13850 100%   17.94kB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#9, to-check=1613/1887)
repo/publisher/solaris/file/00/00017c0b1e5058dd73df952c6a7e9fdb43b9f851
        4959 100%    6.41kB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#10, to-check=1612/1887)
....... OUTPUT TRUNCATED .......
root-mysrv1:/#
root-mysrv1:/#
root-mysrv1:/# svccfg -s application/pkg/server setprop pkg/inst_root=/export/repoSolaris11
root-mysrv1:/#

If we want, we can specify read and write permissions accordingly...

root-mysrv1:/# svccfg -s application/pkg/server setprop pkg/readonly=true
root-mysrv1:/#

Refresh and enable the service so that it will update its configuration

root-mysrv1:/#
root-mysrv1:/# svcadm refresh application/pkg/server
root-mysrv1:/#
root-mysrv1:/# svcadm enable application/pkg/server
root-mysrv1:/#

Set the publisher in our packaging server :

root-mysrv1:/# pkgrepo -s /repo refresh
root-mysrv1:/#
root-mysrv1:/# pkg set-publisher -G ‘*’ -g file:///export/repoSolaris11 solaris
root-mysrv1:/#
root-mysrv1:/# pkg publisher
PUBLISHER                             TYPE     STATUS   URI
solaris                               origin   online   file:///export/repoSolaris11

To provide access only for this server it is enough...

Now to enable this publisher in remote server we need to create publisher in required clients as below. Clients access the repository via HTTP.

As publisher is created with /export/repoSolaris11 directory which is exact location of repo data, only the IP of packaging server is sufficient as url.

root-clntsrv1:/#
root-clntsrv1:/# pkg set-publisher -G ‘*’ -g http://10.20.10.25 solaris 
 ---Here my packaging server's IP is : 10.20.10.25root-clntsrv1:/#

To unset any publisher,

root-clntsrv1:/# pkg unset-publisher <publishername>

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