Description

This cookbook provides a library to extend the current Chef package provider to support the Solaris Image Packaging System (IPS).

Requirements

Platforms

At present this cookbook is designed to work on the Atalanta Systems Solaris hosting platform. This is pre-bootstrapped to use IPS also known as pkg(5).

This provider should work on OpenSolaris, Solaris 11 and OpenIndiana, but has only been tested on Solaris 10 with IPS.

Recipes

default

The default recipe currently takes no action, as the only platform it has been used on already has IPS installed.

Resources/Providers

The libarary ips_package.rb extends the default provider to provide the install and uninstall actions. In the current version there is no 'upgrade' action and no 'purge' action.

Usage

Ensure the ips cookbook is at the of the run list to provide access to this provider to all subsequent recipes.

Changes/Roadmap

Future

• Ideally this should go into upstream Chef, so this cookbook/library may not have a future.
• Extend the provider to support upgrades and named versions

1.0.0:

• Initial release

License and Author

Author:: Atalanta Systems ([email protected])

Copyright:: 2011, Atalanta Systems Ltd