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Steps to create local IPS Repository



First of all download all the repo files required to create an offline repository.

To Download the files use the link: Visit Here

1. Extract all the repofiles to local disk or 
load all repo files on desired server to be configured as IPS Repository for network.

change permissions on install-repo.ksh to execute
chmod u+x install-repo.ksh  or 
chmod 700 install-repo.ksh

insatll-repo.ksh  -d /LocalRepo -s /path-to-repo-files -i sol11-3


2. Create a local pool for holding the images
 zfs create rpool/LocalRepo
 zfs set mountpoint=/localrepo rpool/LocalRepo


3. Copy the extracted files to the /LocalRepo

4. Set the properties of pkg server to access local repository

svccfg -s application/pkg/server setprop pkg/inst_root=/LocalRepo
svccfg -s application/pkg/server setprop pkg/readonly=true
svcadm enable application/pkg/server


5. Set the publisher to be the local machine

pkg set-publisher -g /LocalRepo solaris

6. verify it by running 

pkg publisher

7. For publishing this repository over network 

svccfg -s application/pkg/server setprop pkg/port=8080

pkg set-publisher -g http://server-name:8080/ solaris

[We can use any port in the range 1024-65535]

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