[OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing zones from templates

[Roel_D]

Does that work? During install user root isn't configured, or is it? How can packages be installed without root in the house? 

Kind regards, 

The out-side

Op 16 jun. 2013 om 21:54 heeft Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:

> On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Stefan Müller-Wilken <
> stefan.mueller-wilken at acando.de> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Peter,
>> 
>>> I'm currently trying to better automate zone creation. What I'm actually
>>>> missing is a way to define the packages to be loaded while doing the
>>>> "zoneadm install" step.
>>> 
>>> Can't you specify the extra packages you want with the -e flag
>>> to install:
>>> 
>>> zoneadm -z zone_name install -e extra_pkg
>> 
>> Hmmm... that might be an option but doesn't sound too elegant with dozends
>> of packages.
> 
> So, find or create a package that depends on the packages you need and
> just add that.
> 
> 
>> What about branded zones? There is an /etc/brand/ipkg/pkgrm.conf that is
>> used to remove unwanted packages after zone installation. Shouldn't there
>> be a complementary pkg.conf to define the required ones?
>> 
>> Or are there other means to define zone brands?
> 
> A brand is just a directory in /usr/lib/brand. It would be a bit
> clumsy, but you could just clone the ipkg brand and modify
> pkgcreatezone (originally in /usr/lib/brand/ipkg) to define the
> package list. Or extend it so it took an argument to supply the
> list of packages. (If you fiddle with arguments you need to
> update installopts in config.xml as well.)
> 
> If you're looking for elegance, then all pkgcreatezone does is
> have a very long list. If you're scripted, then I wouldn't see much
> of a problem with dozens of packages.
> 
> -- 
> -Peter Tribble
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