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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