Solaris IPS Vocabulary in brief

1. Manifest : describes an IPS package

2. Repository : location either local or remote where packages are stored. The location is specified by Universal Resource Identifier (URI)

3. Publisher : Person or organisation that provides the packages.

4. Image : Location where IPS package can be installed.

5. Catalog : Lists all the packages in a repository

6. Package archive : File containing publisher information and packages provided by the publisher

7. Boot environment : Bootable instance of an Image

9. Origin : Repository with both package metadata and package content.

10. Mirror : Repository that contains only package content. Similar to a download mirror to a file on the Internet. A secondary repository you may say.

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