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Updating Solaris 11 zones behind a proxy

I’ve forgotten this several times now so it’s time I wrote a short post to help me remember in future! In Solaris 11 we use the Image Packaging System to maintain the software on the system. This is written in python and uses libcurl and for non zoned systems setting the http_proxy is sufficient to […]

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Browsing the support and extras Opensolaris repos in Firefox

Opensolaris users may be familiar with browsing repositories in firefox. To look through the latest Develpoment repo for example you just open up http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev in your browser. Things are a little more complicated for the extras and support repos though. Firstly you need to register to get access to these repos. Anyone can get access

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