Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Image Packaging System, also known as IPS or pkg(5), is a cross-platform package management system created by the OpenSolaris community in coordination with Sun Microsystems. It is used by OpenSolaris and a growing number of layered applications, including GlassFish, across a v ...Full description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Image Packaging System, also known as IPS or pkg(5), is a cross-platform package management system created by the OpenSolaris community in coordination with Sun Microsystems. It is used by OpenSolaris and a growing number of layered applications, including GlassFish, across a variety of OS platforms. Features include: Use of ZFS, allowing multiple boot environments and easy package operation rollbacks Transactional actions Support for multiple platform architectures within a single package Legacy support for SVR4 packages Extensive search grammar