Sometimes it is a good idea or even necessary to have a local mirror of OmniOS available, i.e. if you do not want to allow your severs direct access to the outside world. Setting up a local OmniOS repository is rather simple. 1. Create a local package repo To create an empty repo, run pkgrepo: 2. Grab packages from remote… Read more »

Just a quick memory hook on how to update an OmniOS release… Update the publisher to point to the new release, r151014 being the release version to update to in this case: To update the client’s list of available packages and publisher metadata, run The actual update process is invoked with If you happen to have use zones, the process… Read more »