IPKG(5) Standards, Environments, and Macros IPKG(5)

ipkg - Image Packaging System (IPS) branded zone

The ipkg brand allows the branded zones framework described in brands(5) to run Solaris 10 programs. This brand supports only the "whole root", non-global zone model.
You create a ipkg branded zone using the zonecfg(1M) utility, specifying the property brand=ipkg in its configuration.
After configuring a ipkg branded zone, you attach or install it using zoneadm(1M).

The ipkg brand supports the following zoneadm(1M) sub-commands:
attach [-a archive|-d directory|-r recv_type]
The attach subcommand creates a zone from a previously detached ipkg zone image.
-a archive
Specifies an archive name which can be a flar, tar, pax or cpio archive.
-d directory
Specifies an existing directory where the zone image has already been created.
-r recv_type
Specifies the type of archive to be read from standard input.
clone source_zone
The clone subcommand creates a zone by making a zfs clone of an existing source zone.
install [-u|-p] [-v|-s] [-a archive|-d directory]
install [-c certificate] [-k key_file] [-P Publisher] [-e extra_pkgs [...]]
The install subcommand creates a zone from an archive image or an existing directory.
-a archive
Specifies an archive name which can be a flar, tar, pax or cpio archive.
-c certificate
Specifies the certificate to install for the Publisher.
-d directory
Specifies an existing directory where the zone image has already been created. If the directory specified is - then installation into the zone root is skipped, and the install subcommand only modifies the zone root as necessary to run in a zone.
-e extra_pkg [...]
Specifies an extra package to install in the new zone. Multiple packages may be specified using multiple -e extra_pkg options.
-P Publisher
Specifies the IPS Publisher to configure in the new zone.
-p
Preserves the configuration of the new zone.
-s
Slient installation.
-u
Unconfigures the new zone.
-v
Verbose messages.

cpio(1), pax(1), zfs(1M), zoneadm(1M), zonecfg(1M), brands(5), zones(5)
March 10, 2013