Documentation

Image Packaging System Documentation

 The Image Packaging System (IPS) software is being developed by the OpenSolaris project team in collaboration with the open-source community.
 The latest release of OpenSolaris is 2009.06. The IPS Guide for 2009.06 is available here:
OpenSolaris 2009.06 IPS Guide 
 Click on the links below to go the IPS documents for older releases of OpenSolaris.
Getting Started with IPS for the OpenSolaris 2008.05 Release
Getting Started with IPS for the OpenSolaris 2008.11 Release

Background reading

The project team has been explaining some of the ongoing assumptions behind the project in a series of blog posts:

• Bart on Rethinking patching, and
• Stephen on Observations on packaging, pkg(5): a no scripting zone, pkg(5): leaving the build system `out', and pkg(5): no more installer magic.
  Go to: Indiana Documentation Hub

A newer version of the IPS Guide is located here:http://docs.sun.com/doc/820-6572