Complete local copy (mirror) of pkg.opensolaris.org

As you are aware with every official release of OpenSolaris, comes a full download of all the IPS packages (7GB), but what happens if you want to work on the pkg.opensolaris.org/dev releases and you want a local mirror. I have found this blog which does it. I have modified it slight since I think it had a couple of errors.

1. Create partition to store the packages. I have been told a complete will be around 65GB, but I am using a cut down version.

$ pfexec zfs create -o atime=off rpool/export/pkg


2. Create repository

pfexec pkgsend -s file:///export/pkg create-repository -–set-property publisher.prefix=opensolaris.org

3. Obtain list of packages you want.  In this case everything currently install and the release (134) I am interested in.

$ cd /export/pkg
$ pfexec pkg list -Hva | egrep “134:|install” > /tmp/pkglist.txt
$ head -1 /tmp/pkglist.txt
pkg://opensolaris.org/SUNWcs@0.5.11,5.11-0.134:20100302T005446Z

$ pfexec cat /tmp/pkglist.txt | sed 's/pkg:\/\/opensolaris\.org\///' \
       | cut -f 1 -d ' ' > /tmp/packages.txt
$ head -1 /tmp/packages.txt
SUNWcs@0.5.11,5.11-0.134:20100302T005446Z

4.Now download IPS package and place it into local repository.

$ for i in $(cat /tmp/packages.txt); 
do 
pfexec pkgrecv -s http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev -d file:///export/pkg "$i"
done

5. You can test it to see all is there (http://localhost:80)

$ pfexec /usr/lib/pkg.depotd -d /export/pkg -p 80

6. To make sure the repository is always available.

$ pfexec svccfg -s application/pkg/server setprop pkg/inst_root=/export/pkg
$ pfexec svcadm refresh pkg/server
$ pfexec svcadm enable pkg/server