I have read the docs and PDF's from Oracle on the matter but they were too broad and too much analytic for me to understand.Could someone provide me an overview (as he/she understands it) of the Solaris Image Packaging System the most important commands and repositories?And also what is the connection between SYSV & IPS.
What is Solaris IPS / How does it work?
solaris;oracle;ips
You might start by reading that page: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-admin/o11-083-ips-basics-523756.htmlThere is no connection between SYSV and IPS outside the fact Solaris is derived from the System V release 4.0 Unix branch but Solaris 11 deprecated the System V packaging commands (pkgadd, pkgrm, pkginfo, ...) to the new IPS ones (pkg install, pkg uninstall, pkg list, pkg info, ...)Unlike the SVR4 packaging system which was file centric, IPS is network centric. Dependency handling is also automatic with the latter.