Creating and Managing Images

Document Information

1. Introduction to IPS

2. Learning About IPS

3. Working With Packages

4. Creating and Managing Images

Why Should You Create an Image?

5. Advanced IPS Commands

6. Advanced Packaging Tasks

7. Using Keys and Certificates for Repositories

8. Mirroring Repositories

9. Classification of Packages

10. pkg(1) Command Reference

11. Additional Developer Information

Glossary

Chapter 4

IPS enables you to create and manage images on your OpenSolaris system. An installed OpenSolaris system constitutes an image. Packages can be installed directly within this image. New images are created to mark a boundary between the packages installed in different images.